November 20, 2002	Wednesday	Ramazan 14, 1423

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SWABI, Nov 19: The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology has received the latest equipments for its laboratories and research works from the United States and its European allies after the withdrawal of sanctions against Pakistan.

This was stated by the Rector of the GIK Institute, Dr Mohammad Naseer Khan, while talking to the journalists at his office.

He recalled that when Pakistan conducted the nuclear explosions in May 1998, the US and its European allies had imposed sanctions against Pakistan, blacklisting the GIK institute, which created various problems for it as it was unable to get modern equipments for its laboratories and research work.

The institute, the Rector said, had been encouraging collaboration with international universities in the domain of research, and recently it had installed a high temperature furnace of 2,200 degree centigrade in the faculty of metallurgy and materials engineering in collaboration with the University of Limoges, France.

He said a memorandum of understanding had also been signed with the Limoges university under which the latest research in the field of computer and engineering sciences was shared. Last year, Dr Naseer said, four students of the GIK institute had got admission in PhD courses in Limoges university and in the current year six more would get the admission there.

Currently, he said, the institute was carrying out projects with the collaboration of the University of Limoges, France; University of Waterloo, Canada; Karary Academy of Technology, Sudan; Denmark Technical University; East-Ukrainian National University, Lugansk; Physical Technical Institute, Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Institute of Physics and Technology Academy of Science, Kazakhstan; Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics Academy of Science, Kazakhstan; Brunel University, the United Kingdom; University of Bahrain; Tashkent Electrotechnical University of Telecommunications, Uzbekistan.