SIALKOT: Cash prizes worth Rs1 million were distributed among 109 brilliant and deserving students on Wednesday under the Imam Bibi Endowment Fund for encouraging students.

The third annual prize distribution ceremony was held at the University of Gujrat (UoG) Sialkot campus.

Welcoming the participants, Rehan Younas, chief executive of the campus, explained that the endowment fund had been named after the mother of renowned poet Allama Iqbal. It was established to encourage brilliant deserving students, he added. He further said philanthropists and leading exporters had donated Rs20 million to the fund.

The ceremony was addressed by Muneeb Iqbal, the grandson of Allama Iqbal, who stressed the need for promotion of Iqbal’s theory and vision among students and teachers for establishing durable peace and weeding out terrorism and militancy from the country.

He also recited some of Iqbal’s poetry.

The ceremony was attended by campus officials, leading local businessmen and financial tycoons such as Dr Nouman Idrees Butt and Fazal Jillani, senior journalists, students and their parents.

Published in Dawn, May 12th, 2016