Counter-narrative urged for peace in universities

Lahore

The students from the universities, including Government College University, Bahauddin Zakaria Univesity, Punjab University, Univerisity of Engineering and Technology, FCC, Islamic University and Quaid-e-Azam univerity participated in a seminar at Alhmara on Saturday and presented dramas and scripts.

The seminar was organised by Progressive Youth Alliance. The students and youngsters also talked about their problems. According to them, extremism is increasing with the passage of time. Space for progressive Pakistani is shrinking. Murder of Mashal Khan in university is alarming. Mashal’s death shows how state is helpless before extremists. Actually Mashal had resisted the corruption of the university administration, the students said. Moreover, counter-narrative is very important, otherwise, the peaceful environment of universities will be disturbed. No one will have courage to ask questions. Dialogue guarantees peace and reshapes a society, they said. Environment of dialogue should be created everywhere.

PU PhDs: Punjab University (PU) has awarded PhD degrees to four scholars. According to a press release Muhammad Sohail s/o Sher Muhammad has been awarded PhD in Zoology after approval of his thesis entitled “Bioaccumulations of Heavy Metals and Genotoxicity in Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the Chashma Lake-River Indus Pakistan”, Mumtaz Aslam d/o Muhammad Aslam Dogar in the subject of Punjabi after approval of her thesis entitled “Takseemay Hind Tey Punjabi Nasri Adab (Tehkiki Tey Tankedi Mutalyaa)”, Usman Aftab s/o Aftab Ahmed Tarique in the subject of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics after approval of his thesis entitled “Screening of Indigenous Actinomycetes for Antitumor Activity and Compounds” and Yasir Mahmood s/o Muhammad Yaqoob in the subject of Arabic after approval of his thesis entitled “Critical Study and Edition of Manuscript Kifaytul Majalis by Shaikh Qazi Abu Jafar Muhammad Bin Amer Al-Shabi”.