KARACHI: Board of Advanced Studies and Research (BASR) of the University of Karachi has awarded 51 PhD and 24 MPhil degrees in various disciplines.

In a statement on Thursday, the KU registrar said the BASR in its recent meeting held under the chairmanship of Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mohammad Ajmal Khan awarded those degrees.

According to him, the PhD degrees in Botany were awarded to Sadaf Toqeer, Erum Shoukat, Saba Nazir and Shahjehan, in Geography to Abid Hussain while in Chemistry to Mohammad Saad, Ishrat Jamil, Tuba Kamal and Sajda Ashraf. To Naveed Yousaf and Danish Iqbal in Public Administration; Mohammad Naseer, Mehboob Alam Baig and Arif Mahmood Mustafai in Quran and Sunnah; Mohammad Azeem in General History; Saiqa Tabassum and Musarrat Jahan in Biochemistry.

To Samina Naurin, Sylvia Sabir Sahir and Lubna Faraz in Botany; Ejaz Basheer, Tayyaba Mumtaz and Salman Ahmed in Pharmacognosy; Itefaq Hussain in Pharmacology and Suraiya Jabeen in Environment Studies.

To Zulfiqar Ahmed in Physiology; Meher Hassan and Sadia Sadaf in Genetics; Nuzhat Anees in Urdu; Asia Ahmed in Microbiology; Samreen Fatima in Statistics; Muniza Shaikh, Syeda Durr-i-Shahwar and Qurat ul Ain in Molecular Medicine; Rahil Ahmed in Food Science and Technology.

To Urooj Javed and Alveena Zehra in Biotechnology; Sidra Khan and Majeed Ahmed Khan in Mathematics; Hina Dawood in European Studies; Saima Khalil in Education; Ibrahim Zia in Geography; Sana Shahid in Mass Communication; Aijaz Ali in Islamic History; Abdul Samad in Usool-ud-din; Seema Manzoor in Women Studies; Zeb un Nisa in Pharmaceutics; Nausheen Fatima Jaffery in Political Science and Mirza Salman Baig in Applied Physics.

He mentioned that the MPhil degrees were awarded to Kiran Shahzadi, Shama Noureen, M. Saad Hussain and M. Kawish Iqbal in Chemistry.

Javeria Masnoon in Microbiology; Usman Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed, Mohammad Zohaib and Aziz Ahmed Baig in Islamic Learning; Samina Sultan in Nematology and Shumaila Farzand Ali and Ambar Jamal in Physics.

To Anam Umar and Nousheen Ali in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Ayesha Liaquat and Umair Ahmed Khan in Chemistry; Madiha and Sameen Athar in Computer Science; Sami Ullah Qureshi in Applied Economics; Shahzad Hussain in Psychology; Shezaib Siddiqui in Molecular Medicine; M. Akhtar Abid in Usool-ud-din; Syeda Nasreen in Zoology and Eruj Wajidi in Public Administration.

Published in Dawn, April 5th, 2019