SUKKUR: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain’s reiterating call for dividing Sindh is simply inappropriate.

The Pakistan Peoples Party would never allow the division of Sindh as the party had already made it clear that division of the province was unacceptable, he said.

He was talking to journalists after attending the convocation of the Institute of Business Administration Sukkur for graduating students here on Saturday. He was accompanied by Sindh Minister for Education Nisar Ahmed Khuhro.

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Mr Shah said that at a meeting with Altaf Hussain, PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had called Mr Hussain new Sindhi and called himself old Sindhi.

At the convocation, a total of seven gold medals were awarded to meritorious students of different academic programmes while 240 graduates were awarded degrees in business administration, electrical engineering, computer science and education.

In his welcome speech, dean and director of IBA Prof Nisar Ahmed Siddiqi thanked the chief minister, minister for education and media personnel for attending the convocation which showed their commitment to education.

Ms Afeera Khursheed and Rasool Bux Channa bagged gold medals for securing first position in BBA programs for Fall-2010 and Spring-2010 batches, respectively, while Ms Bushra received a gold medal for securing first in MBA program for Fall-2011 batch.

In BE program, Waqas Ahmed and Haider-i-Karrar were awarded gold medals for Fall-2009 and Fall-2010 batches, respectively, while Hyder Ali Khwaja and Ms Salma Naz secured gold medals for attaining first position in MS (management sciences) for Spring-2011 and Spring-2011 batches, respectively.

Ms Memoona Latif and Sanjay Kumar were awarded silver medals for securing second position in BBA programmes for Fall-2010 and Spring-2010 batches, respectively, while Ms Kiran Chimnani was awarded bronze for securing third position in Fall-2010 batch.

Addressing the convocation ceremony, the chief minister congratulated the new graduates for achieving degree from the best educational institution of the country and wished them success in all their future endeavours.

Mr Khuhro congratulated the dean and director of IBA for creating an educational institution par excellence and expressed pleasure to see female students securing top positions and getting gold medals.

Later, the chief minister inaugurated new administration block at the IBA and performed groundbreaking ceremony for 600 KW solar system project which had been installed at an estimated cost of Rs257.234 million.

The project would enable the institution to use solar energy as an alternate source of power and help make the campus green.

Published in Dawn, April 26th, 2015

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