KARACHI: The registrar of the University of Karachi has notified that the Board of Advanced Studies and Research in its meeting held recently under chairmanship of KU Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Muhammad Ajmal Khan awarded 36 PhD, 34 MPhil and 1 MS degrees to students in various disciplines.

PhD degrees were awarded to Qurban Ali (agriculture), Shumaila Shafket Ali (English), Muhammad Hayat (chemistry), Samreen Ashraf, Bilquees Bano, (chemistry, HEJ), Zahra Nazim, Sayeed Hamid (public administration), Siraj Bashir (social work), Barerah Siddiqui (clinical psychology), Farhan Ahmed Siddiqui (computer science), Mubeen Ara, Qadeer Muhammad Ali, Saima Majeed (marine biology), Syeda Asma Omer (plant conservation), Syed Ammad Ali, Naveed Wahid (economics), Hafiz Syed Mahmood Alam, Zubeda Begum (Islamic learning), Abdul Rasheed (statistics), M. Jamil (mathematics), Tan­sif-ur-Rehman (European studies, ASCE), Taq­dees Ara Malik, Darshna Kumari, Faiz Muhammad, Rao M. Abid Khan (microbiology), Sana Akhtar (special education), Amtul Sami (biotechnology), Roohi Kanwal, Atia Batool (zoology), Ashfaq Ali Naz (physics), Amir Shadmani (pharmacognosy), Faisal Rafique (applied physics), Muhammad Waseem Zia (library and information science), Shazia Nawaz (molecular medicine), Urooj (mass communication) and Saiqa Muneer (pharmaceutics).

MPhil degrees were awarded to Sohail Ahmed (biotechnology, KIBGE), Ramla Binte Baber, Syed Farhan Abbas, Maaz Uddin Ahmed Siddiqui (pharmacognosy), Faisal Khan, Sarfaraz Ali, Anum Iftikhar Malik, Tehreem Saba, Syed M. Zaki Shah, (chemistry, HEJ), Afsheen Afsar (chemistry), Tuba Shakil Malick, Humaira Saleem, (molecular medicine), Masooma Hassan (microbiology), Juweria Tanveer, Arif Akhtar (physics), Tooba Fayyaz (mathematics), Hareem Siddiqui (public administration), Sidra Shehzad (clinical psychology), Salman Ashfaq Ahmad (pharmaceutics), Kubra Siraj, Huma Mirza, Ghulam Fatima Soomro, Sharafat Afzal, Um-e-Kulsoom (applied economics, AERC), Sabahat Raza (European studies), Muh­ammad Afzal (economics), Rida Khalid (pharmaceutical chemistry), Sarah Jameel Khan (pharmacology), Lubna Farman Ali (food science and technology), Zunaira Riaz, Syed Waqas, Sehrish Mehmood (agriculture), Mirza Uzair Baig (statistics) and Aliya Maqsood (physiology). MS (Master of Surgery) degree was awarded to Dr Muhammad Tahir (MBBS) (general surgery).

Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2018