KARACHI, Jan 10: The meeting of the Board of Advance Studies, University of Karachi, was held on Friday which was presided over by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Dr Zafar Saeed Saifi.

According to the varsity spokesman, the meeting recommended award of Ph.D. degrees to a number of faculty members.

Dr Mohammad Javed (MD), Zarin Umatul Shaikh (Chemistry-HEJ), Asal Khan (Bio-Chemistry), Mohammad Shafiq (Botany), Sadiqa Badar (Sociology), Abdul Aziz (Genetics), Mohammad Noor Alam (Chemistry-HEJ), Irfan Beg (Chemistry-HEJ), and Sohail Hassan (Pharmaceutical), were recommended.

The meeting also recommended the award of M.Phil degrees to a number of candidates, which were, Sami-ur-Rehman (Urdu), Naveed Rab Siddiqui (Zoology), Khalida Bano (Bio-Chemistry), Najaf Abbas Ghafoor (Applied Chemistry), Fauqia Mushtaq (Bio-Chemistry), Sadaf Afreen (Mathematics), Shaista Alam (Applied Economics), Noor Kamil (Bio-Chemistry).—APP