PESHAWAR, May 2: Sadia Noor, MBA (banking and finance) student at the Institute of Management Sciences (IMS), Peshawar, stood first in the English language group of the international essay-writing competition, organized by the Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The topic of the competition was “Role of education to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century for the Islamic Ummah”.

Sadia, daughter of Dr Noor ul Mabood, won a prize of $500.