KARACHI, Jan 16: The University of Karachi has awarded 11 PhD degrees in various disciplines.

According to the KU registrar, those who have been awarded the PhD degrees are: Mohammad Afzal (Botany), M. Siddique Rathore (Quran and Sunnah), Shamim Mushtaq (Biochemistry), Khalid Mustafa (Economics), Iffat Mehmood (Chemistry), Mohammad Naeem Anwar (Islamic learning), Uzma Zaman and Sher Bahadur Khan (Chemistry-HEJ), Mohammad Qayyum and Sajjad Ali (Islamic learning), Dr Zahida Memon (Pharmacology).—APP