09 January 2005	Sunday	27 Ziqa'ad 1425

FAISALABAD, Jan 8: Two masked bandits took away foreign currency and prize bonds worth Rs4 million from an employee of a money changer outside Chiniot Bazaar here on Saturday.

Reports said Muhammad Shahid was intercepted by the dacoits when he was going to change the 20,000 Euros and 156 prize bonds of Rs15,000 denomination. The gangsters took away the bag containing the amount.

A case has been registered by the Kotwali police.

GUIDELINES: University of Agriculture vice-chancellor Dr Bashir Ahmed has said the institution is ready to provide guidelines to students of Muslim countries in every discipline of modern sciences.

This he said while speaking to a delegation of students and teachers of the College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, at the University of Agriculture here on Saturday.

The vice-chancellor said that there were six faculties - Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and Faculty of Sciences in the university.

He claimed that over 200 university teachers were Ph.D scholars while the university had established linkages with international universities and research institutions throughout the world.

Dr Iqrar Ahmed Khan, head of the visiting delegation, said that foreign students would also visit the Salinity Research Institute, Pindi Bhattian, a local textile unit, Laboratories of Horticulture, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Institute of Food Technology and Engineering Workshop, Rice Processing Units and some other agricultural research institutes in the country.