Iranian envoy, NUST team separately call on COAS

RAWALPINDI: Ambassador of Iran to Pakistan Mehdi Honardoost called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday. A team of NUST students also met COAS who congratulated them on winning international Championship on Longevity Design held in California, USA on 30th March, 2017, says an ISPR press release on Wednesday.

In the first meeting with the Iranian ambassador evolving regional security matrix and other issues of mutual interest were discussed, including measures against common threat of terrorism.

The COAS said Pakistan greatly values historic Pak-Iran relationship and the same shall continue based on mutual trust and respect for each other’s interests. Meanwhile, NUST students who won international Championship on Longevity Design held in California, USA on 30th March, 2017 met Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at GHQ on Wednesday.

The 20 countries participated in the competition. The theme for participants was focus on improving the quality of life for individuals aging in their homes. The 3 member NUST team, Awais Shafiq, Hooriya Anam and Arslan Javed was selected to top 9 teams from different universities across the world by a panel of judges of industries from Silicon Valley.

The NUST team designed Tremor Acquisition and Minimisation (TAME) and defeated MIT Virginia Technology, Stanford, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Waterloo, Canada, Cornell, California, Berkeley and Beijing universities in final stage held at Stanford University. The TAME is a wearable device for real time pathological wrist tremor suppression to enable tremor patients perform routine task without assistance.

The COAS congratulated the team on this outstanding achievement. “Our youth is our asset and we are proud of their achievement for keeping the green flag high,” COAS emphasised.