Rawalpindi To commend the consistent efforts of students who excelled in academics and co-curricular activities during the academic session 2014-15, the Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony of FG Postgraduate College for Women, Kashmir Road, was held here on Wednesday. The chief guest on the occasion was Professor Shaista Zaid, recipient of the Pride of Performance and Sitara-e-Imtiaz, and the former principal of the college. The ceremony started with recitation of the Holy Quran by Ayesha Syed, followed by Syeda Wajeeha Zahra presenting a beautiful ‘Naat’. Hira, Kainat and group presented the college anthem. In her address to the students, principal Nasreen Mirza presented a brief synopsis of the achievements of the college during the years 2013-15. In various inter-regional competitions held by the FGEI Directorate and other inter-collegiate contests, the students won laurels by securing 38 individual prizes and nine trophies, despite the fact that fewer competitions were held this year keeping in view the security situation. “We have been the recipient of the Federal Government Educational Institutions (Cantonment-Garrison)(FGEI-C/G) trophy for best performance in sports and co-curricular activities for last five years i.e. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014,” she said. “Two of our sport teams, the volleyball team and the badminton team, won the award of overall best team in the competitions held by FGEI(C-G). Furthermore, our sport teams secured third position in table Tennis, volleyball and athletics competitions held by FBISE, Islamabad. Our students also excelled in fine arts competitions in which Hajra Mehmood won a cash prize of Rs5,000 in the competition held by NAB and another of Rs2,000 at the PNCA. Nadia Yasmin was awarded for being the best behaved student in the College Hostel,” she said. The chief guest, Professor Shaista Zaid, distributed prizes and certificates among the position-holders in College, Board and University Examinations. In BA-BSc examinations, a brilliant student, Mehreen Sajjad, received prizes in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and also secured 1st position in BSc group. Whereas Alishba Maryam received prizes in Zoology and Chemistry, Madiha Qazi in Islamiyat Elective and Arabic Optional, and Sitara Irum in Islamiyat Compulsory and Economics respectively. In FA-FSc First Shift, Shameen Nasir secured prizes in Chemistry, Mathematics, Urdu Compulsory and also stood first in the Pre-Engineering group. Salma Babar got prizes in Arabic, Psychology and Education and also stood first in the Humanities group. Whereas Shakira Mukhtar secured prizes in English Compulsory, Biology, Physics and stood first in the Pre-Medical group. The results were no less brilliant for FA-FSc Second Shift, where Bismah Asif secured prizes in Biology and Urdu Compulsory and also stood first in the Pre-Medical group, whereas Faiza Ali received prizes in Physics and Pakistan Studies and Shumaila Bibi in Education and Urdu Elective respectively. In University and Federal Board examinations for the academic session 2012-14, Rabia Amjad stood first in MA English while Javeria Saeed was first in MA Urdu. The students awarded for top positions in BA-BSc include Memoona Amin (BA), Rida Rafaqat (Mathematics, Statistics, Physics) (BSc Computer Science Group) and Asma Gulzada (BSc Botany, Zoology, Chemistry Group). In Federal Board examinations 2014, the following girls topped their groups and won medals: Zainab Iqbal (Pre-Medical), Saman Khan (Pre-Engineering), Sadia Irum (General Science) and Rukia Fatima (Humanities). The following girls were awarded certificates for their best performance in co-curricular activities: Aqsa Ghazanfar (Sports), Tehreem Javed (Drama), Sumaira Naseem (Cultural Perfomances) and Hira Abdul Karim (Singing). The chief guest, Mrs. Shaista Zaid, in her speech, extended her felicitations to the parents and teachers of the high-achievers. She referred to the glowing faces of the bright students radiant with the glow of success and asserted that CBians have always kept alive the spirits of hard work and achievement. She highlighted the importance of committed educators in moulding the personality of young students who constitute the future of Pakistan. “There is dire need of real education that enlightens the mind and teaches tolerance, patience, acceptance of divergent points of view and a commitment to truth. If we, as Pakistanis and Muslims, want to recover our past glory, we must go back to the fountain of knowledge, i.e. the Holy Quran. Each of us must read at least one verse with translation every day to shake our moral and spiritual yearnings. We must go back to the Islamic virtues of tolerance, peaceful coexistence and hard work. Only in this way can Pakistan rise out of the quagmire of corruption, poverty and terrorism like a phoenix rising out of the ashes to new heights of glory,” she said.
