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With the grace of ALLAH Almighty, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad, achieved another O p e n i n g c e r e m o n y o f He highly praised the efforts of milestone by successfully TechnoMoot-2011 was held on CIIT Abbottabad for holding the

thholding the 6 Technomoot. May 9, 2011 in Azeem Shahzad sixth consecutive TechnoMoot in

Memorial Hall, CIIT Abbottabad. such a magnificent way and said Dr. Shahid Ahmed Khan, Dean that he is happy to see that the Faculty of Engineering, CIIT, whole campus is involved in the graced the occasion as the Chief event one way or the other, Guest. Addressing the audience, which is reflective of the Dr. Shahid Ahmed Khan stated dedication of all. He asked the that he had a detailed round of students to be productive and the engineering projects of the do everything for the country students from the engineering they can. He said that teachers in st it ut io ns an d so ft wa re should not take teaching as a job e x h i b i t i o n s b y t h e but a passion instead as they are multinationals. He further stated the ones who shape the future that such pro jec ts and of the students and the country.exhibitions create a healthy Prof. Dr. Khan Gul Jadoon, c o m p e t i t i o n a m o n g a l l Director, CIT Abbottabad participants and provide an thanked the Chief Guest and all opportunity to learn from each participants for coming from other. Continuing he stated that different corners of Pakistan for all efforts should be made to attending the event. In the end, commercialize all products a shield was presented to the displayed in this two days event. Chief Guest by the Worthy He also stressed on the need of Director and the event was converting the research into declared formally open. developed products for the

C l o s i n g c e r e m o n y o f benefit of the country.

Technomoot 20119-10 May 2011

TechnoMoot 2011 comprised seven

different activities simultaneously

organized to benefit students, learners and practitioners alike. The

activities included EMCOT (Electrical

Engineering), CCIS (Mathematics), CSE

(Information Technology Center),

Vision ICT (Computer Science), Miles

(Management Sciences), S-Dev (Environmental Sciences, Chemistry,

Pharmacy and Development Studies)

and Height (Humanities)

TechnoMoot-2011 was an assembly of eminent s c h o l a r s , h i g h l y learned personages in the fields of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Management Sciences and Natural Sciences

TechnoMoot 2011 was held on the efforts of CIIT Abbottabad struggle to rule the whole World. May 10, 2011 in Azeem Shahzad for successfully organizing this Prof. Dr. Khan Gul Jadoon, Memorial Hall, CIIT Abbottabad. mega event. He was very Director CIIT Abbottabad Syed Zaheer-u l-Is lam, DCO appreciative of the projects thanked the Chief Guest and all Abbo t t abad g r a ced t he displayed by all universities. He participants for attending the ceremony as the Chief Guest. Dr. advised the students to work event. Prizes were then Arshid Pe rvez, Convener hard as this is the time which is distributed among the winners. TechnoMoot 2011 enlightened known as the “make or break The ceremony concluded with the audience about the time”. He stated that success is the presentation of shield as successful conclusion of event. directly proportional to hard memento of appreciation to the

work. He asked the students to The Chief Guest commended Chief Guest.engage themselves in uphill

th6 Symposium on “Computational Islamabad, CIIT Lahore, CIIT Prof. Dr. Faiz Ahmad and Prof. Complexities, Innovations, and Attock, Karachi University and Dr. Munir Rasheed. A total of 25 Solutions” (CCIS) was held on UET Peshawar attended the speakers delivered their talks on May 9-10, 2011 under the symposium. different fields of Mathematics umbrella of TechnoMoot 2011. including Computational Fluid Symposium comprised four The Sympos i um was a Dynamics, Fuzzy Algebra, Group sessions which were chaired by continuation of previously held Theory, Anthromathematics, Professor Dr. Muizuddin, symposia in 2006, 2007, 2008, Re la t iv i ty and Ana lys i s .Professor Dr. Syed Arif Kamal, 2009 and 2010. The key note speakers were

Professor Dr. Syed Arif Kamal, The Symposium was attended Prof. Dr. Faiz Ahmad, Prof. Dr. by more than 100 Participants. Munir Rasheed and Associate A number of prominent Professor Dr. Siraj-ul-Haq.mathematicians and scientists The Symposium on the whole from various universities and was highly appreciated by all prestigious institutions of participants and was a great Pakistan, including Quaid-I-success. Azam University Islamabad,

NUST I s l amabad , C I I T

2N E W S L E T T E R 02 03April - June 2011EVENTS

CCIS 2011

Computational Complexities, Innovations & SolutionsDepartment of Mathematics, 9-10 May 2011

th The 6 high-tech national level technologies. The major activity Conference o f Sof tware of this event was Software Enterprises was held in CIIT Exhibition. It was designed to Abbottabad on May 9-10, 2011 provide a common platform to unde r t he umbre l l a o f s o f twa r e p r o f e s s i o na l s , TechnoMoot 2011. It was a academicians and industry multi-dimensional gathering of executives to interact with each visitors and participants from other nationwide. d i f f e r e n t s c i e n c e s a n d D i f f e r e n t o r g an i z a t i o n s

CSE 2011

Conference of Software EnterprisesCOMSATS Information Technology Center, 9-10 May 2011

l Higher Education l DataLink Technologies l Solo Soft TechnologyCommission

l Logics l Adnan Traders l 360 Technologies

l Telecomsians l COMMITSl Xpert

l Team Xperts l PTCLl NM Technologies

l Hazara Communicationl O&A Business

l House of IT Solution

l University of Engineering & l UET PeshawarEMCOT 2011 was one of the Technology, Taxila l UET Mardanresearch innovations to nourish

l NUST-Military College of l The University of Lahorepotential engineers in the field of Signals IslamabadElectrical Systems, Micro-

l CIIT LahoreC o n t r o l l e r s a n d Te l e - Tutorial Sessionsl Fast NUCES Peshawarcommunications. This year, l CIIT Islamabad T h e f o l l o w i n g t u t o r i a l Department of E lectr ica l l Mirpur University of Science discussions were conducted:Engineering, COMSATS Institute

& Technologyof Information Technology, l Kalman Filtering by “Dr.

l Dr. A Q Khan Institute of Javed Mirza” Abbottabad campus organized

Computer Science and th8 event of EMCOT on May 09- l Academia Intellectual Property Information Technology10, 2011 under the umbrella of & Commercialization by Dr.

l FAST NU Peshawar CampusAkhtar HussainTechnomoot 2011.

l National University of Computer & Emerging

Events Line up Sciences, Peshawar Paper Presentationsl Student Project Exhibition & l International Islamic

Competition EMCOT 2011 received 20 University Islamabadl Industrial Project Exhibition research papers and about 11 l CIIT Abbottabadl Symposia on latest we r e s e l e c t e d f o r o ra l l Fatima Jinnah University,

advancements in Electrical presentation after a thorough RawalpindiEngineering review process.

l Paper/Technical Article Presentation Competition

Projects Awards

Participants The evaluation and judges A total of 56 exhibitors committee, chaired by Dr. Laiq showcased their cutting edge Khan did a great job in selecting technologies and the latest the best papers and projects applications. They were: among all possible options.

l Bahria University Islamabad

EMCOT 2011

Electrical Systems, Micro-Controllers & TelecommunicationsDepartment of Electrical Engineering, 9-10 May 2011

displayed their products and gave information about the services being provided by them. Following companies presented their products and services:


Amir Anees of HITECH University p a p e r t i t l e d “ S p e c t r a l Smart Antenna System”.won the best paper award for the Estimation Algorithms for

significance of the topic, he The speaker being a renowned organizers for holding the

termed it as an intriguing issue political analyst very effectively seminar on such an important

that is being confronted not only answered these questions. topic and thanked them for

by Pakistan but the world at He elucidated the root cause of inviting him to chair the session.

large. militancy in Pakistan during He termed the talks by the

There were two distinguished recent years, its effects on dist inguished speakers very

speakers to deliberate on the Pakistan's current situation and enlightening and rich. Later,

topic.The keynote speaker of its hazards for her future and there was question and answer

the event was Professor Dr. also suggested measures for the session in which audience were

Rasul Bakhsh Rais from the eradication of the evil thereby given chance to ask questions

School of Humanities and Social making his talk very elaborate from the worthy speakers. It

Sciences, Lahore University of and informat ive for the turned the session into an

Management Sciences (LUMS). audience. interactive one where audience

Dr. Rasul Bakhsh Raees holds Second speaker was Assistant participated very enthusiastically in

PhD in Political Science from Professor, Ms. Salma Malik from the discussion.

University of California, Santa Defence and Strategic Studies, In concluding remarks, Head of

Barbara. He thanked the Quaid-i-Azam University Islambad. Humanities Department, Col.

organizers for inviting him to talk She specializes in the area of (Retd.) Ikram Ul lah Khan

on such a crucial issue. In his War, A rms Cont ro l and thanked the guest speakers and

talk, Dr. Raees raised four Disarmament, Military sociology the audience on behalf of

questions: and South Asian Affairs. Dilating management of CIIT in general

upon the topic, she pointed out and Department of Humanities

l What is militancy? the factors that aided to the rise in particular.

l What has caused militant's of militancy in Pakistan. She The event ended with the

mind set to grow and urged civil society and media to presentation of souvenirs to the

proliferate in Pakistan? fulfill their responsibilities in worthy speakers by Professor Dr.

l How much have we been current scenario and join hands Syed Amjad Farid Hasnu, Dean

damaged by militancy? to rid the society of this menace. Faculty of Business Administration,

l What can be the possible Professor Dr. Mushtaq Sajid, CIIT Abbottabad.

s o l u t i o n t o c o u n t e r Dean Management Sciences,

militancy? AJK University chaired the

session. He congratulated the

09, 2011. A total of 11 teams Department of Management BIZCOM from 10 different universities Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad

INTER-UNIVERSITY participated in the competition. arranged two days event named Each team comprised two BUSINESS PLAN “MILES” on May 9-10, 2011 students and one faculty COMPETITIONunde r t he umb re l l a o f supervisor. The criteria for the T e c h n o m o o t 2 0 1 1 . 1st Day of MILES, 9 May evaluation was based on written

Under the banner of MILES, 2011 bus iness p lans , a l ready th ree key even t s we re

submitted by participating B I Z C O M - 2 0 1 1 w a s organized: BIZCOM, MCC and

t e a m s , p o w e r p o i n t successfully conducted on May Entrepreneur’s Corridor.

Software Project Competition

Hardware Project Competition

Position Names of Students University Projects Title

First Miss Faiza Akhtar Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi

Non Repudiation for remote voting system

Second Mr. Waqar Khan and

Abdul Rehman CIIT Lahore

Vehicle License plate detection on android platfoof

Signals

Position Names of Students University Projects Title

First Mr. Hasan Bin Tila and Waqas Ahmed

Military College of Signals, NUST

Rawalpindi

Novel UWB based through the wall imaging system

Second Mr. Imran Khan FAST NU Peshawar Brain Computer Interface based communication people

locked in syndrome

T h e n e w l y e s t a b l i s h e d graced the occasion as Chief The importance of the seminar

Department of Humanities Guest. The audience included increased manifolds due to

participated in Technomoot recent events that have taken

2011 for the first time under the place in the country. To

logo “HEIGHT” that stands for en l ighten the aud ience,

Humanity, Excellence, Ideology, distinguished scholars and

Goal, Honesty, and Truthfulness. defence analysts of the country

Seminar on “Rising Militancy and were invited as speakers.

its Impact on the Future of The event started with the

Pakistan” was organized by the recitation of Quranic verses by

Humanities Department on May Mr. Mehraj Muhammad. Later,

09, 2011. Dr. Zahid Shah, Head of Humanities Department faculty and students of CIIT Assistant Professor Department Col. (Retd.) Ikram Ullah Khan Abbottabad together with o f Human i t i e s was the welcomed the worthy guests g u e s t s f r o m d i f f e r e n t coordinator of the seminar. and thanked the audience and educational institutions of the Professor Dr. Khan Gul Jadoon, guests for sparing time for the country. Director CIIT Abbotta bad event. Talking about the

HEIGHT

Humanity, Excellence, Ideology,

Goal, Honesty and TruthfulnessDepartment of Humanities, 9-10 May 2011

The aim of the seminar was to highlight the root causes of militancy,

its impact on our society and to suggest measures that could help us

in stamping out the evil from our society

MILES 2011Managing Innovation, Leadership,Entrepreneurship and Strategies

Department of Management Sciences, 9-10 May 2011

skills, knowledge, and attitude At the end, one of our own required to be a successful budding entrepreneurs, student entrepreneur. of CIIT Abbottabad Mr. Salman

Qamar was provided the Entrepreneurs'

opportunity to come on stage Corridor provided an and share his success story with exposure to business the audience which was really

appreciated and encouraged by students, faculty and the audience. local entrepreneurs to Second session comprised panel get first hand tough job of starting a business discussion and questions from knowledge and share of her own in an uncertain and the audience which were very difficult environment prevailing their experiences with elaborately addressed by the for the businesses in current business people of guests. This session was very times. Abbottabad interactive as the guests were

Mr. Tariq Mehmood shared his kept engaged both by the The session started with success story with the audience students and the faculty, who opening remarks by HOD and his style of management asked various questions related Management Sciences, Dr. practices within his business of to their businesses and their Mushtaq Jadoon. He focused on distribution of imported food experience. The session was importance of entrepreneurship. items in the whole province. very fruitful and the students The first speaker Ms. Shanila

grasped this opportunity whole The third guest speaker Dr. Javed, a new female entrant in heartedly to gain knowledge Ahmad Hussain shared his the world of business shared all about the practical aspects of knowledge of business, linking it the difficulties she had to face, running their own business. with the environmental issues along with the motivational

and opportunities. factors that pushed her to do the


The participants of the event were Mehmood, Owner/Director, Waleed House, student of CIIT Abbottabad, local entrepreneurs, students of Corpora tion, Abbotta bad, Ms. and Dr. Ahmad Hussain, Deputy different Institutes and faculty Shahnilla Javed, Owner, Themes, Manager MES, shared their personal members. Qazi Shujaat, Team Lead, Designer Outlet, Abbottabad, Mr. experiences of organizational Entrepreneurs Corridor, Mr. Tariq Salman Qamar, Owner, Software development, hurdles in it and the

T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f the umbrella of Technomoot Maroof Shah, Professor, Env i ronmenta l Sc iences , 2011 on May 9-10, 2011. Department of Environmental Chemistry, Pharmacy and Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad. He Development Studies jointly Session on Biotechnology was introduced various aspects of organized various activities held on May 9, 2011. The the program and future vision of collectively named as Science session started with the B i o t e c h n o l o g y i n C I I T for Development (S-Dev) under introductory remarks by Dr. M. Abbottabad. A special lecture on

“Biotechnology applications in medicine” was delivered by Dr. Iftikhar Qayum, Director Research, Rehman Medical C o l l e g e , P e s h a w a r. H e highlighted various applications of b iotechnology in the improvement of various curative medical technologies. The second lecture was delivered by

presentat ions and quest ion Hazara University, Dhodial from Muhammad Ali Jinnah handling skills. University Islamabad. The team members included The results of BIZCOM 2011 are the following: as follow:

MCC (Management concept 1. First prize of Rs. 7000 and a and cases)l Ms. Zohra Saleem shield won by Fatima Jinnah

l Ms. Amina Hameed W o m e n U n i v e r s i t y , MCC provided a panorama of l Mr. Assad Raffaq Rawalpindi interaction of researchers and l Mr. Naveed Iqbal 2. Second prize of Rs. 5000 and a c a d e m i a w i t h i n t h e i r l Mr. Fahim Bashir a shield won by CIIT Sahiwal community. The session was l Mr. Arshad Aziz 3. Third prize of Rs. 3000 and a chaired by Prof. Dr. Bahadar l Mr. S. Qasim Shah s h i e l d w o n b y C I I T Shah, Dean Faculty of Law and

Islamabad Administrative Sciences, Hazara Judges of Event: University, Dhodial. l Mr. Naveed Sultan, Vice The overall participants of the

P r o m i n e n t r e s e a r c h e r s , P r e s i d e n t / R e g i o n a l event comprised business

academicians and players of the C o m p l i a n c e C h i e f students of CIIT Abbottabad, real corporate world were Abbottabad Zone, National competing students of different invited to share their practical Bank of Pakistan universities along with their experiences with the MS faculty

l M r. K a m r a n K h a n , supervisor and faculty members and students in the shape of R e g i o n a l M a n a g e r, of Hazara University, Dhodial case studies and latest concepts SMEDA, Peshawar and CIIT Abbottabad. of management at international

l D r. A b d u l M a j i d , level. The session wise detail of All the judges unanimously D e p a r t m e n t o f the presentations is as under: recommended a Consolation Management Sciences,

shield for Mr. Muhammad Amjad

MCC provided a platform to academicians and professionals of the field to share latest research trends. Moreover, this event provided an opportunity of brain storming, learning and proper guidance on

the critical aspects of management activities

2nd Day of MILES

Entrepreneurs' Corridor

S-Dev 2011Science for Development

Departments of Environmental Sciences, Pharmacy, Chemistry and Development Studies, 9-10 May 2011

Various events of S-Dev included seminars and lectures, stalls, display of posters projecting the major research

achievements of various research groups, display of gems, and exhibition of

published research papers

Management Sciences, CIIT Islamabad

AJK, Kotli.College of Administrative Sciences, University of

Professor Dr. Mushtaq Sajid, Dean, University

Professor Dr. A fzal, Chairman, Department of

Topic Speaker

Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic stability

Management Sciences, CIIT Islamabad

Successful Women Entrepreneurship in AJK. A case study of British Pakistani SME

Revealed Comparative advantages of Agriculture exports in Pakistan

Professor Dr. Khalid Riaz, Department of


Dr. Fida Muhammad Abbasi from Management in North universities also attended the Department of Genetics, Hazara Pakistan”. Finally, Dr. Khan seminars and visited stalls. They University, Mansehra. His topic Zaib Jadoon, Research Science inquired about the on-going of talk was “Production and Institute of Bio & GeoSciences, research pro jects and lab molecular characterization JUSLICH, Germany delivered his facilities at CIIT. of wide-cross derivatives in talk on “Full-waveform Students of the Department of rice”. He introduced various hydrogeophysics”. At the end Pharmacy, CIIT Abbottabad molecular biological techniques of session, Dr. Ishtiaq Jadoon under the supervision of faculty to improve the existing rice thanked the participants and members of the department varieties in Pakistan. Third and distributed shields to the invited organized a camp for clinical last lecture of the session was speakers. investigations (tests) such as delivered by Dr. Azra Khanum, The final session was organized blood pressure, blood group and C h a i r p e r s o n Z o o l o g y by ES Department on May 10, BMI analysis. Prof. Dr. Khan Gul Depar tment , PMAS Ar id 2011. It was attended by all J a d o o n , D i r e c t o r C I I T A g r i c u l t u r e U n i v e r s i t y, f a c u l t y m e m b e r s o f Abbottabad also visited the Rawalpindi. Her topic of talk was Env i r onmen t a l S c i e n ce s camp and admired the efforts of “Stem cells and cloning Department and a large number the Department of Pharmacy. Research: Implications for of students. Dr. Ahmed Hassan The students of the Department the Future of Humankind”. highlighted “Various Treaties' of Pharmacy conducted above She highlighted the role of tissue mentioned tests of a total of 396 culture in the betterment of people.human race. At the end of Besides, various posters related sess ion, Dr. Maroof Shah to the pharmacy practice and extended vote of thanks to the research publications of the invited speakers while Director facul ty members of the CIIT Abbottabad, Prof. Dr. Khan Department of Pharmacy were Gul Jadoon distributed souvenirs also displayed. to invited speakers. In addition, the Department of The session on Earth Sciences Pharmacy also organized the was organized on May 10, 2011. scholarly lectures by well

on Environmental Issues” Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmad Khan Jadoon, learned pharmacists. Dr. Imran and also shared various means C h a i r m a n / P r o f e s s o r , Masood (Malaysia) and Sardar to implement them. The Department of Environmental Shabbir delivered their scholarly attendees found it valuable and Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad sen tim ent s on “Role of very informative. The second welcomed the guests and pharmacist in Primary lecture was delivered by Dr. highlighted the activities of ES Heath Care” and “Future of Qaisar Mahmood, Assistant department. Later, Dr. Ahmad Pharmacy Profession in Professor, Department of Hussain, Deputy Project Pakistan: Challenges and Environmental Sciences, CIIT M a n a g e r, M i n i s t r y o f Opportunities”, respectively.Abbottabad. He discussed Environment opened the session “ V a r i o u s t r e a t m e n t by arguing on the role of The Department of Chemistry t e c h n o l o g i e s f o r t h e Env i r onmen t a l S c i e n ce s organized a symposium on wastewater in Pakistan”. discipline in Pakistan. The first “Chemistry- The Future and Finally, Dr. Iftikhar A Raja, speaker was Dr. Nasar Ali Bhatti, Prosperity” as part of S-Dev Professor, Department of Country Manager of Hazara Te chnoMoo t 2011 .Th ree Environmental Sciences, CIIT Fertilizers. He spotted light on eminent scholars were invited to Abbottabad extended vote of t h e “ g e o l o g i c a l share their research experiences thanks to the participants and characteristics of Pakistani with the faculty and students of distributed shields among soils”. Mr. Amir Sohail Head, this area. Professors, teachers speakers. A large number of NESPAK delivered a special and students were also invited students not only from CIIT but lecture on the “Geohazards from different universities and from local col leges and A s s e s s m e n t s & colleges of the area. The session

Vision ICT is a regular event variety of events scheduled at of Department of Computer the episode. Following events Science, arranged under the took place at the occasion:umbrella of Technomoot. SeminarEvent is arranged at inter

A seminar was conducted on campuses level and students M a y 1 0 , 2 0 1 1 . D r. of various campuses of CIIT Sajjad.A.Madani, Head, get together to participate in Department of Computer

was hosted by Dr. Khurshid Reconstruction Challenges through their monitoring and Ayub. Welcome address was in Post-Disaster, Khyber responding expertise and given by Dr. Rehana Rashid, Pukhtoonkhwa”. Purpose of through integrating individuals Chairperson, Department of the seminar was to apprise a n d o r g a n i z a t i o n s f o r Chemistry, CIIT Abbottabad. students , profess iona ls and sustainable relief, rehabilitation Prof. Dr. Shahid Hameed from stakeholders of the initiatives and reconstruction efforts. Qua id- i -Azam Univers i ty, taken by public and private Dr. Muhammad Khalil briefed the Islamabad gave a presentation organ izat ions and other forum on initiatives by Pak-Irish on “Synthesis and in vivo agencies for the sustainable Rehabilitation Project in the Hypoglycemic Activities of uplift of communities belonging disaster struck areas of KPK. Arylsulfonylimidazolidine to the disaster affected areas, Pak-Irish Rehabilitation Project 2,4-diones”. future goals and prevailing spec ia li ze s i n amputat ion Dr. Humaira Yasmin Gondal from challenges and constraints lying serv ices and prov is ion of Sargodha University, Sargodha in the path of development. artificial limbs to the disabled d e l i v e r e d a t a l k o n M r. M u h a m m a d A h s e n , people. He also talked about the “Enantioselective Synthesis Exe cu ti ve Dir ect or, Ru ra l services produced and provided of (1S)-cis-Chrysanthemic Development Project, Dr. Fazlur by the project and gave statistics Acid”. The last presentation Rehman, Provincial Coordinator of the area cove red and was given by Dr. Farzana PERRA and Dr. Muhammad individuals treated by them so Mehmood, Bahuddin Zakaria Kh al il , D ir ec to r P ak -I ri sh far. Dr. Khal il 's ta lk also Un i ve r s i t y, Mu l t an . He r Rehabilitation Project graced the comprised numerous success p r e s e n t a t i o n w a s o n event by addressing the stories and paved a way for “Anticancer and Anti HIV audience on the aforementioned future health and rehabilitation through Simulation”. grounds. Dr. Fazl-ur- Rehman provisions for the disaster struck The Shields and souvenirs were enlightened the audience about regions.presented to the speakers and PERRA’s interventions and Speakers' seminars were gues ts . The sess ion was activities in almost all the followed by an open question concluded by the vote of thanks disaster hit areas and gave an and an swer se ss ion th at by Dr. Abdur Rehman, Professor, account of organizational surfaced many important Department of Chemistry. policies and consequent ia l questions from the audience Department of Development interventions, PERRA has laid side and professional responses St ud ie s, CI IT Abbo tt abad down so far. He focused in detail to them. organized seminar on “Relief, on PERRA’s strategies of coping R e h a b i l i t a t i o n a n d with disaster hit situations

Vision ICT

Vision Information and Communication Technology

Department of Computer Science, 9-10 May 2011


World Environment Day is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public act ion. It is celebrated worldwide, each year, on June 5. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different theme. This year's theme was “Forests-Nature at Your Service”. C O M S A T S I n s t i t u t e o f Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad's Environmental Sciences Department has been playing its role in promoting a w a r e n e s s o f f a c t o r s

for Boys Abbottabad took place:endangering our environment

(e)Jinah Basic School and and also playing a very positive College, Mansehrarole for the improvement of Declamation Contest

environmental qual ity in f) Pakistan International Public The program started with a P a k i s t a n . S i n c e i t s S c h o o l a n d C o l l e g e , dec lamat ion contes t . The e s t a b l i s h m e n t , t h e E S Abbottabad competition was planned for the department has been holding

(g)Army Burn Hall Col lege students of educational institutions yearly moots to spread

Abbottabad of Abbottabad. The host was awareness among various

Mahnoor of BES-4. A lively h) Chinar Public School and walks of life, specifically discussion took place among the College, Abbottabadt a r g e t i n g t h e y o u n g e r students and valuable views were

g e n e r a t i o n a n d f u t u r e (I)International Public School exchanged on the topic under environmental scient ists. and College, Havellian discussion. The topic was Following past tradition, a

“Environment is responsibility ( j)Govt Sanitania l Model number of events were

o f g o v e r n m e n t o r Secondary School for Boys, organized to commemorate the

community” . The judges Abbottabadday on June 13, 2011.

included Dr. Faridullah and Mr. (k)Jinah Public SchoolMeritorious students from Asim. The winners of the contest

twelve different schools were (l) Pine Hills Girls College were:invited to participate in the

1st position: Pakistan e n v i r o n m e n t a l d a y International Public school, Dr. Mushtaq Khan Jadoon, Head, celebrations. The participating AbbottabadDepartment of Management schools included the following:2nd position: Islamic Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad was

(a)Telecom Girl's College, Foundation Schoolthe Chief Guest of the event. The

Haripur3rd position: Abbottabad Public proceedings started with

b) Hazara Public School and School, Abbottabadrecitation of the Holy Quran by College, Haripur Meraj Mahmood. The emcee for Quiz Competition

the program was Miss Sara c) Abboattbad Public School, A quiz competition was held among Hafeez of BES-7.Abbottabadten teams from ten different

Following successful events d) Modernage Public School, schools. The competition consisted

Sc ience, CI IT Abbo ttabad declared runner up. The project Asim Bashir and Naveed ur delivered talk on “EMERGING was supervised by Dr. Sajjad RehmanT E C H N O L O G I E S O F A h m e d M a d a n i , H e a d , Runner up: CIIT LahoreCOMPUTER SCIENCE” to Department of Computer Team members: Muhammad computer science teachers of Science, CIIT Abbottabad. Furqan Aziz, Sajid Anwar and Hazara region which was Software Project Atta-ur-Rehman Shahattended by 42 participants of Competition Consolation Prize: CIIT different colleges. It was a very

16 project teams from different Vehariinteractive session which was campuses participated in this Team Members: Zonish, highly appreciated by all competition in which software Rabia Naseem and Adeel participants. projects of all computer science Asharaf

Graduate Students Poster domains were presented. Speed Programming Competition Judges of this competition were Competition Posters were displayed on both Dr. Manzoor Ahmed Tamimi from

41 students participated from all days. 10 Graduate students CIIT Islamabad, Mr. Ali Shahid campuses in this event. participated in this competition from CIIT Vehari & Dr. Waqas Winner: CIIT Abbottabad,in which they presented their MS Anwar from CIIT Abbottabad. Syed Awais Kazmithesis work in the form of Following were the results of the

posters. Dr. Manzoor Ahmed event: Runner up: CIIT WAH,Tamimi from CIIT Islamabad Zulqarnain Ali Abid Winner: CIIT Abbottabadand Dr. Imdad Khan, CIIT

Gaming CompetitionProject Title: Animated Abbottabad were the judges of E d u c a t i o n a l S o f t w a r e 67 participants competed in two this competition. Based on the Group Members: Syed Faraz different games i.e MOHA & decisions of the judges, Ahmed and Mr. Ayaz Crusader Strong Hold. Following Nauman-ul-Haq from CIIT

were the results:Abbottabad won t First position Supervisor: Dr. Khizar Hayatin Poster Presentation. The title

Runner up: CIIT Islamabad Winner Game 1 (Crusader of his project was “Qualitative Project Title: Third Person Strong Hold)a n d Q u a n t a t i v e ShooterEnhancement of specialized CIIT Lahore

i m a g e s i n t r a n s f o r m Group Members: Jawad Asif Team Members:domain”. The project was a n d A s e m a H a s s a n Umair Mushtaqsupervised by Dr. Khizer Hayat, Supervisor: Dr. Manzoor Illahy Ghulam MujtabaAssistant Professor, Department

Quiz Competition of Computer Science, CIIT Abbottabad. All teams competed in a very Winner Game 2 (MOHA)

competitive way. Dr. Khizar Amina Rasheed from CIIT CIIT AbbottabadHayat from CIIT Abbottabad Abbottabad with project tile of Team Members:was the judge of the event. “Low cost service provision Umar Ahmed NoorWinner: CIIT Islamabadwith group mobility in Rashed AhmedTeam members: Tahir Badar, Adhoc Networks ” was Asmaar

World Environment Day 2011 Department of Environmental Sciences, 13 June 2011

Congratulations to Chemistry Department on winning two HEC Grants

Dr. Ather Farooq Khan has been awarded with “Tun ing the Ant i cancer Ac t i v i t y o f the HEC grant of 3.67 million for his project titled Organometa l l i c Ruthen ium(I I ) -A rene “Development of azole based potential Protein Compounds of Hydroxypyridone Der ived Kinase Inhibitor”. Ligands” has been awarded to Dr. Mohammad

Hanif.Startup research Project of 0.5 million entitled

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3rd position: Govt. Sanitanial of two rounds. Questions Model Secondary School for Boys, relating to environment were Abbottabadasked from the participants.

It was hosted by Miss Madiha Photography competitionTariq and Miss Zainab Khalid.

A photography competition held After a close competition whose theme was pollution. All between the teams, the the photos were work of art in session ended with Burnahall themselves. The winners were:College for Boys securing the

first position, Jinnah Basic 1 s t p o s i t i o n : P a k i s t a n Model Secondary School for School and College secured International Public School and Boys, Abbottabadsecond position while Pakistan College, Abbottabad

3rd position: Jinah Basic International Public School was 2nd position: Chinar public nd School and College, Mansehrathe 2 runner up. The panel of school

judges included Dr. Qaisar Poster competition3 r d p o s i t i o n : P a k i s t a n Mahmood, Dr. Ishtiaq Jadoon The school children also International Public Schooland Dr. Abdul Matin. p a r t i c i p a t e d i n t h e In the end, prizes were handed Skit Competition Environmental Awareness Poster over to the winners of the different Competition. The judges were A skit competition was also competitions. The guest of honor Dr. Mustafa Shafqat, Dr. Irfan held. The performers were applauded the efforts put in by the and Dr. Bilal.enthusiastic and engaging. The organizing committee, which

judges included Dr. Amjad Sabir, The prizes went to the following: comprised Dr. Zulfiqar Bhatti, Dr. Dr. Tayyab and Dr. Irshad. The 1st pos i t ion : Pa ki st an Romana Khan, Mr. Zeeshan winners were: International Public School and Sherazi, Miss Saima Zeb, Miss 1st position: Pine Hills Public College, Abbottabad Romana Jamshaid, Miss Abda School and College, Abbottabad Khalid, Mr Asim Jehangir, Mr Awais 2nd position: Hazara Public

Arifeen and Mr Adeel Malik. 2nd position: Govt. Sanitanial School

history, achievements made so by the achievements of CIIT round the campus. They visited fa r, academic progra ms, Abbottabad and expressed their Library, Laboratories, IT Center, research activities, facilities, desire to have future mutual Academic blocks and other areas miss ion, vision and future collaboration in teaching and of the campus and high ly objectives. research. appreciated the excellent facilities

being provided by CIIT to the The team was highly impressed The delegation was then taken students.

Youth delegation from Sri Lanka Purpose of their visited COMSATS Institute of vis it to CIIT Information Technology (CIIT), A b b o t t a b a d Abbottabad on June 3, 2011. was to enhance

cooperation and

coordination in all areas of Delegation education and comprised 17 people, learning.

including members They were warmly

of the Youth we l comed by officials of CIIT Parliament, who A b b o t t a b a d . visited Pakistan as with them in all areas of teaching Director CIIT Abbottabad, Prof. and research. Mr. Kamran Hashmi, part of Youth Dr. Khan Gul Jadoon welcomed Manager Coordination & Planning

Exchange Program them and expressed his desire gave a detailed presentation to have strong collaboration about CIIT Abbottabad, its

Youth Delegation from Sri Lanka visits CIIT Abbottabad

3 June 2011

Commissioner Hazara Division Visits CIIT Abbottabad

30 June 2011

Mr. Khalid Khan Umer Zai, a ch i evement s , a cadem ic Abbottabad in such a short span of Commissioner Hazara Division programs, collaboration with time after its initiation. He assured visited CIIT Abbottabad on June national and international to render full assistance and 30, 2011. He was warmly universities, vision 2020 and cooperation to CIIT Abbottabad for elcomed by the officials and other information about CIIT land acquisition. He also expressed Heads of all Departments of Abbottabad. his wish to visit the campus again CIIT Abbottabad. Prof. Dr. Khan as he was pleased to see such a Mr. Khalid Khan Umer Zai was Gul Jadoon, Director CIIT beautiful campus in the vicinity of very appreciative of the Abbottabad enlightened him Abbottabad. achievements made by CIIT about mission, vision, history,

Telecom Cloud, as a branch not mature yet and has of Cloud Computing, is an many issues and the emerging research and biggest is the TRUST, which development area, coined is an active research area in and lead by the ERICSSON. this domain.The idea is that the The Information Security telecom, instead of setting and Image Processing up their own infrastructure (ISIP) research group of can take the services from a Department of Computer telecom provided. As you Science, CIIT Abbottabad in may say, the idea is not new co l labora t ion w i th a but in telecom cloud, computational devices owned by researcher, Mr. Muddasar Aslam, virtualization is added. Now the the telecom provided in virtual from the ERICSSON Lab Sweden services hired by the operator machines. This has a big organized a workshop “ISIP a r e r u n n i n g o n t h e potential, but the technology is Workshop on Trusted Computing:

ISIP Workshop on Trusted Computing: Introduction, Concepts and Mechanisms

Department of Computer Science, 27 May 2011, 2 June 2011 and 16 June 2011


Introduction, Concepts and regarding current state of the art to establish collaboration. The Mechanisms”. The objectives of te ch ni qu es , fi nd in g so me workshop was organized in three this workshop were manifold interesting research problems to sessions shown in the table below:that included information work on and last but not the least

Date Topic

I 27 May Introduction to Trusted Computing Concepts and Mechanisms

II 2 June Using Trusted Platform Module (TPM) : Hands -on Lab Session

III 16 June Securing Telecom Cloud using the Trusted Computing Mechanisms

The session not only dealt with to the software tools for generous and even presented his the theory but also included the accessing and using the TPM or unpublished work.hands on lab session in which security chip and other related the audience were introduced tasks. The presenter was very

To explore the possibilities of c o m p r e h e n s i v e effective industrial linkage/ “Question Answer” L ia ison in the f ie ld of session. Following Electronics/Communication areas of research/ Research & Development, collaboration were Industrial Liaison Group, highlighted/ agreed Department of Electrical upon for industrial E n g i n e e r i n g , C O M S A T S Liaison/ l inkage Inst i tute of Informat ion exchange:Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad,

l D S P b a s e d arranged subject visit to the communication N a t i o n a l R a d i o & conceptsTelecommunication (NRTC),

l Software toolsHaripur, on May 27, 2011.

l Advance level Following faculty members simulationswere included in the visiting

l A l g o r i t h m l Quality assurance cellTeam: AnalysisOn conclusion of the visit, Dr.

l Prof. Dr. Shahid Khattak l Wireless CommunicationShahid Khattak thanked the NRTC (HoD) l Switching Systemmanagement for arranging such a

l Col. Anjum Hussain Shah l High Profile Students for comprehensive/informative visit. (Retd.) Internship He expressed his sincere hope that

l Engr. Atiq-ul-Anam Later on, visitation team carried CIIT Abbottabad campus & NRTC l Engr. Zulfiqar Khattak out detailed visit of the following collaboration/liaison in R&D will go l Engr. Owais Khan Jadoon setups of NRTC: a long way.Visit started with in-depth

l R&D briefing by the Head R&D of the

l Production HallNRTC which was followed by

CIIT Industrial Liaison Visit to NRTCDepartment of Electrical Engineering, 27 May 2011

Professional Grooming of Engineers is of a paramount importance in the technological arena. Keeping in view this important aspect, PEC has made an elaborate program for the professional grooming of Engineers by incorporating C O M S A T S I n s t i t u t e o f Information Technology (CIIT). By the Grace of ALLAH Almighty, CIIT Abbottabad is one of those Prestigious Institutions who were awarded subject license. In this regard, CIIT Abbottabad in collaboration with PEC/CIIT Islamabad organized subject one day symposium through Industrial Liaison Group of EE department. Panel Discussionproviders in Pakistan got

together with some of the Under the dynamic moderation of leading researchers on June 13, Dr. Shahid Khattak, Head, 2011. Depa r tmen t o f E l e c t r i c a l

Engineering, CIIT Abbottabad, panel discussion on the subject Following were the Keynote was conducted and all the resource Speaker/ Resource Persons:persons acted as panelists. During 1. Dr. Mehmood Ashraf t h e p a n e l d i s c u s s i o n , Khan, Chief Engineer, comprehensive and thought E lec t r i ca l Eng ineer ing provoking questions/answers were Department, Islamabadwitnessed.

Moving to 3G and 4G networks 2. Dr. Khurram Aziz, Broad Subject International symposium means connectivity to the band Optical Network, CIIT helped a lot in professional Internet through high speed Abbottabadgrooming of the young faculty and mobile broadband access and

3. Dr. Ing. Andreas Matzke, final semester students. We the availability of feature rich Radio and studio techniques s incere l y hope tha t CI IT applications and value added

Abbottabad's EE Department will 4. Engr. Jawaad Hafeez, services. Mobile Monday continue holding such events in M a n a g e r B r o a d b a n d , (MoMo) looked for answers and future as well for the professional Universal Services Fund USF v i a b l e s o l u t i o n s w h e n grooming of its faculty.Co. Pakistanrepresentatives of the leading

mobile operators and service

One Day International Symposium at CIIT Abbottabad on

“3G/4G Wireless Network Implementation” (Mobile Monday-MoMo)

Department of Electrical Engineering, 13 June 2011

The event helped to have a close liaison

and an open discussion forum

between our faculty, students

and industry

Session


T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f transform this activity into a Success is an Attitude: Management Sciences, CIIT professional development entity

l Attitude as a tool for success Abbottabad has been a leading in the future.

l Tips to manage Positive contributor to the development The Trainers of “Management Attitude of our future leaders. One of the Dynamics” were the students of

major areas being “Training l Success and Attitude related MBA specializing in Human Workshops” which are planned, Resource Management. The managed and executed by the a c t i v i t y enhanced t he i r

Anger Management: students of the Department. understanding of the concept as Under the supervision and well as its practical application. l Why get Angry? guidance of Prof. Dr. Syed There were 4 sessions in all that

l Identifying Reasons and Amjad Fareed Hasnu and Dr. i n c l uded t he f o l l ow ing : Remedies Mushtaq Jadoon, this idea is transformed into one of the core l Converting Anger into

Managing Diversity: strengths of the Department. Strength Two days workshop on l Understanding Diversity Management Dynamics was

l M a n a g i n g a d i v e r s e The sessions were attended by organized by the Department workforce more than 300 participants. on June 1-2, 2011. By the grace l Diversity as Competitive Honorable Director, Dean and of AlMighty ALLAH, 3 phases of

advantage Head of the Department chaired these workshops have been t h e c l o s i n g s e s s i o n a n d completed in which 150 Humor at Workplace: appreciated the students on their students have worked as

l Making workplace FUN extraordinary performance. “Trainers” whereas a large l Injecting Humor to increase n u m b e r o f r e g i s t e r e d

Performance participants attended these workshops. l Managerial strategies to The Department wil l be make Stressful jobs Fun. continuing its efforts to

thThe 4 Meeting of the Board of Prof Dr. Muhammad Bakhtiar, reference to the initiation of St ud ie s, De pa rt me nt of Hazara University, Manseraha, Interdisciplinary Specialization Chemistry was held on April 11, Prof. Dr. Haq Nawaz Bhatti, such as Computational Chemistry, 2011 at 10:30 hours at the Un iv er si ty of Ag ri cu lt ur e, Material and Nano chemistry, Co nf er en ce Ro om , C II T Faisalabad and Dr. Ahmed Synthesis and Chemical Biology Abbo ttabad Campus . The Adnan, , GCU, Lahore. The and Bio-inorganic Chemistry. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Dr. me mb ers fr om Ch emi str y BoS deliberated on the other Rehana Rashid, Chairperson, department CIIT Abbottabad academic agenda i tems and Department of Chemistry. P rof. Dr. Abdur Rehman Khan, Dr. approved them. The collaboration Eminent external members Umar Farooq and Dr. Abida K. with national and international from va rious prest igiou s Khan actively participated and institutions and universities institutions of Pakistan attended deliberated on the agenda. through MoU persuasion will the meeting namely, Prof. Dr. T he Convene r i n i t i a t e d encoura ge the concept of Na za r- ul -I sl am , Pe sh aw ar discussion on the major issues interdisciplinary specialization. University, Prof. Dr. Saeed like strengthening graduate Arayne, University of Karachi, program of Chemistry with

2 Days Workshop on Management DynamicsDepartment of Management Sciences, 1-2 June 2011

thChemistry Holds 4 Board of Studies Meeting

Department of Chemistry, 11 April 2011

Award of PhD Degree to Mr. Muhammad ArfanDepartment of Environmental Sciences

Q u a i d - i - A z a m U n i v e r s i t y supervision of Dr. Javid H. Zaidi. He Islamabad awarded Ph.D degree for the first time synthesized â-on March 18, 2011, in Chemistry to He xa pe pt id e of Ne ur ot en si n Mr. Muhammad Arfan. The title of through solution phase. During his his thesis was “Synthesis and PhD, he also visited George-August-Biological Evaluation of â- University, Gottingen Germany Hexapept ide Ana log o f under IRSIP fellowship form HEC. Neurotensin NT (8-13)”. He He has 29 International and completed his research under the National Publications in his credit.


A one day seminar on “Trends under; residents. This assumption can i n E n v i r o n m e n t a l Water pollution is a source of easily be challenged both in narrow Biotechnology” was held at danger to the health of people economic terms and also in terms N a t i o n a l C e n t r e o f living in developing countries of the loss to the community of Biotechnology and Genetic such as Pakistan. The main environmental amenity. There are Engineering (NIBGE) on April industries located in various numerous processes used to 18, 2011. Dr. Qaisar Mahmood industria l zones of Pakistan cleanup wastewaters depending was invited to deliver a lecture cause water pollution, which on the type and extent of on “Anaerobic Wastewater ultimately result in various contamination. Treatment”. Around 200 diseases. Industrial pollution is a Wastewater technologies include s tudents , teachers and primary type of point pollution physical, chemical and biological re se ar cher s fr om va ri ou s and metals are the main cause of treatment processes. Anaerobic universi ties of Faisalabad, toxicity in living organisms. The treatment has been considered as Lahore, Islamabad, Multan and reason that wastes have been one of the most effective and Sargodha participated in the accepted into the sewers despite economical method in treating seminar. The seminar organizer t h e i r e n v i r o n m e n t a l both industrial wastewaters as well was Dr. Qaiser Mahmood Khan, consequences has been in large as domestic wastewater. One of its Head o f Env i ronmenta l part based on the assumption outstanding characteristics is that Bi otechnology Divi si on of that if industry was not provided the anaerobic microorganisms can NIBGE. At the start of seminar, with a cheap disposal system, aggregate and form the biological Dr. Zafar M. Khalid, Director of this would adversely affect granules and biogas is produced as NIBGE welcomed the guests. economic and industrial growth a byproduct. The excellent settling The abstract of Dr. Qaisar and would pose a threat to the ability of the granular sludge, high Mahmood's presentation is as li ving standards of Sydney biomass and ri ch mi crob ia l

Invited Lecture at NIBGEDepartment of Environmental Sciences, 18 April 2011

diversi ty in the reactor, acidogenesis, acetogenesis improves the tr ea tmen t and methanogenesis. It is a capacity and efficiency. comple x pr oce ss w hic h Anaerobic digestion has a requi res st ri ct anaerob ic tendency to degrade certain conditions and depends on the compounds and dyes, such as activity of complex microbial poly chloro-aromatics and assoc ia tion to transform poly nitro-aromatics as well as organic material into CO and 2

the azo dye. Anaerobic methane (CH ). Anaerobic 4

digestion (AD) is very digestion has been shown as e f f e c t i v e i n t r e a t i n g efficient removal of COD from wastewaters. The digestion textile effluents as well as azo process of organic material dyes.basically follows; hydrolysis,

Group photo of participants of seminar at NIBGE

Dr. Qaisar Mahmood ReceivingParticipation Certificate

Dr. Iftikhar Qayum, Director a n d R M C . T h e Medical Research, Rahman collaboration will Med ica l Co l lage (RMC) , provide a useful P e shawa r, v i s i t ed C I IT p l a t f o r m f o r Abbottabad on April 4, 2011. He graduate students of did his MBBS from King Edwards B i o t e c h n o l o g y Medical Collage, Lahore and MD Program to excel in from USA. Afterwards, Dr. h e a l t h Qayum obtained his PhD degree biotechnology and in Human Molecular Genetics, init iate different from Quaid-i-Azam University, research projects at Islamabad. His major focus is to health site. He is well develop research in medical assoc ia ted w i th

Program. genetics specifically in human other renowned medica l diseases in Pakistan at par with colleges and research labs and

The students of MS Biotechnology world standards. His research c a n t h e r e f o r e m e d i a t e discussed their projects and had interests include cytogenetics, collaboration of CIIT with other very informative interaction with molecular genetics, tumor medical collages and labs.him. Dr. Qayum was very much patho logy , oncogenes i s , He gave a very informative pleased to see the research biodegradation and biowasting presentation on “Status of progress in different fields of as mechanism of aging and Medical Research in Pakistan”. Biotechnology. It is hoped that the death. collaboration will be fruitful Later, he visited Life Sciences especially for MS Biotechnology Dr. Qayum's visit to CIIT labs along with Dr. Muhammad students who have interest in Abbottabad will serve as means Maroof Shah and other faculty Medical Biotechnology.of collaboration between CIIT members of Biotechnology

Dr. Iftikhar Qayum visits CIIT AbbottabadDepartment of Environmental Sciences, 4 April 2011

2N E W S L E T T E R 20 21April - June 2011

Ha za ra Sc ho la rs Fo ru m-A “Instincts like hunger thirst and all over the world as one nation literary gild of the scientists and several others are the same both regardless of their geographic scholars residing in Hazara and in man and animals, it's the aim divisions. Iqbal was neither particularly at CIIT Abbottabad of life that makes the two conservative nor modernist but a orga nize d a s itti ng w ith kingdoms distinct. Animals balanced mix of both. renowned scholar and expert on sat isfy onl y the ins tincti ve It is Iqbal who comprehended Allama Iqbal, Professor Dr. requ i rements wh i l e man Quran on real intellectual level. Muhammad Ayub Sabir on April sacr if ices hi s inst incts for We have to purify our thoughts 13, 2011, in the Committee achieving the aim” said Professor and set our aim in the right room of the Academic Block A, Sabir. It's the right aim not the direc tion and this can be CIIT Abbottabad. material gain that is superior. Aim achieved by adhering to Iqbal's The topic was “Fiqr-e-Iqbal is even higher than the man philosophy. Only then we can Ka Taa'ruf” (An introduction to himself. Continuing, he said that enjoy a respectab le sta tus Al lama Iqba l' s th ough ts ). the right aim is to reach the among the commun it y of Invitation was open to all Creator, The Owner, the Absolute nations. interested. A large number of authority. Iqbal establishes our The participants posed very faculty and students attended relations with ALLAH and rests relevant questions and the guest the meeting. The guest speaker his own philosophy on Quran. speaker satisfied them with his discussed some salient aspects The term “khudi” in Iqbal's scholarly answers.of Allama's “Fiqr” and started his poetry refers to individual's talk with a famous verse of a t t i tude wh i le the te rm Iqbal: “baykhudi” points to the nation

(Millat). Begging, fear and weak faith are among the characters that weaken one's Khudi. Iqbal e m p h a s i z e d o n I s l a m i c nationhood that deems Muslims

“Fikr-e-Iqbal ka Taa'ruf”-An Intellectual GatheringDepartment of Environmental Sciences, 13 April 2011

One day training on “Project Focused areas of the workshop analysis, in this regard, was Planning and Management” was w e r e b a s i c s o f P r o j e c t ta u g h t a n d p r a c t i c a l l y organized by the Department of Management, Project Cycle demonstrated in the most Development Stud ies, CIIT Management and Logica l conso l idated way. Project Abbottabad for students of all Framework Analysis. Training Management complexities were se me st er s. Tra in in g w as methods comprised theoretical discussed in detail through or ga ni ze d an d co nd uc te d tutoring of the said discourse individual and group discussions. through auspices of SAIBAAN through presentation, individual Eventually, understandability was Foundation and The Facilitators and group discussions and group outlined through practical group organization. Training took place work. work by assuming numerous in Hotel Greens Retreat at Training started by Mr. Abdur projects related to Education, Nathiagali on June 15, 2011 and Rab's detailed overview of the Health and Infrastructure.was attended by all students and e s s e n c e a n d t e c h n i c a l It is anticipated that practical faculty of Development Studies consideration of Project Cycle act iv i t ies l ike these wi l l department. Management along with different strengthen students' abilities to Training was conducted by Mr. steps taken in order to define coincide theoretical knowledge Abdur Rab, Manager Human and Project objectives, highlighting with practical understanding of Inst it ut iona l Devel opment , and prioritizing main issues, development themes and will SUNGI and a consultant student a s s e s s m e n t o f p r o j e c t also link the department with of MDS, Miss Fozia Shahzad from sustainabi li ty and financ ia l potential employers for better The Facilitators organization. viabi lity. Logica l Framework possible outcomes.

Objectives of the training were to equip students with theoretical understanding and practical knowledge of various elements of Project Planning Cycle and Formulation and to enable them to practically use related tools in development of Logical Framework Matrix

One Day Training on “Project Planning and Management”

Department of Development Studies, 15 June 2011

“The News” arranged a also there, including two day Education Expo in CIIT Lahore campus, c o n v e n t i o n c e n t r e , who were highlighting Islamabad on June 11-12, their Dual Degree 2011. Mr. Osman Khalid, Program (DDP).Lecturer, Department of l The target of the Computer Science, CIIT visitors was mostly Abbottabad and Miss information and details Saadia Munir, Incharge a b o u t d i f f e r e n t Student Affairs, CIIT g r a d u a t e a n d Abbottabad attended the undergraduate.exhibition and participated l programs. They were

2011 session.with full spirit. It was a golden interested in visiting the Following are a few highlights:opportunity for campuses to get campus themselves to collect

maximum coverage considering concrete information.l Staff members and faculty the timing of admissions of Fall l The visitors were also

from other campuses were

Education Expo- 201111-12 June 2011

EVENTS


provided the informat ion fashion designing, Mechatronics On the whole, the event and the regarding online admissions an d So ft wa re En gi ne er in g stall for CIIT was very eloquently being conducted in all programs in near future. MS/PhD placed and was very nicely campuses for Fall 2011 candidates were coming in large managed by Mr. Asad Zia from session. numbers, but wanted something pr incipa l seat . The venue

in the evening duration as being branding and the stall hoardings People were interested to know professionals; they could not were very properly placed and if CIIT offers or intends to offer, spare time for studies. designed.

Under the dynamic leadership of Department, the Scheme of f ro m Fal l 2 01 1 s em es te r. Prof. Dr. Izhar Hussain and with Studies of MS and PhD programs Resultantly Graduate programs in the hard work, dedication and were designed for all the four Pharmacy were advertised in efforts of all the faculty members streams of Pharmacy including, Newspapers on Sunday, June 12, of the Department of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacognosy, 2011. C O M S AT S I n s t i t u t e o f P h a r m a c o l o g y a n d Launching of Graduate Programs Information Technology (CIIT), Pharmaceutical Chemistry and in pharmacy will not only be in the Abbottabad, the Graduate (MS/ the same were got approved from best interest of CIIT Abbottabad PhD) Programs of Pharmacy Board of Studies in Pharmacy in but will also earn good name for

rdhave been launched and have its 3 meeting held on October the Institute. It will help faculty been included in the CIIT 25, 2010. Further approval of members of the department to advertisement of Fall 2011 Scheme of Studies and launching establish their independent admissions. It is no doubt a of Graduate programs in the research groups and carry out great achievement for the Department of Pharmaceutical quality research of International Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, from Fall 2011, was standards at CIIT. It will also help Sciences that in this short span accorded by Board of Faculty in to further increase the research

thof its establishment, it has been Sciences, in its 9 meeting held productivity of the Department of successful in launching its on December 13, 2010. Board of Pharmacy, in terms of research Graduate Programs. Advanced Studies and Research, p u b l i c a t i o n s , r e s e a r c h

th thin its 10 and 11 meetings held The efforts to initiate Pharmacy supervision and winning more on December 20, 2010 and Graduate Programs were started research grants, by its faculty January 17, 2011 finally approved last year and wi th the members, from National and the Scheme of Studies and CEC participation and hard work of all International Organizations.gave administrative approval for the facul ty members of launching of these programs

Launching of Graduate Programs (MS/ PhD) in Pharmacy Department From Fall 2011 Semester

Cricket Match played between CIIT Abbottabad and CIIT WahThree cricket matches were played among Abbottabad campus won all three matches CIIT Abbottabad and CIIT Attock. of 20 overs.

SPORTS

Dr. Mohammad Hanif delivered a well appreciated invited lecture at the Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Title of his talk was “Metal-Based Anticancer Drugs: From Simple Inorganic Salts to Bioorganometallics”

Dr. Khurshid Ayub visited AWKU (Abdul Wali Khan University) as an invited speaker and delivered two lectures on March 29 and 30, 2011. The titles of the talks were "Chemistry with Limited Resources" and "Developing a Rational Design Strategy for 'de Vries Like' Liquid Crystals"

Invited Lectures from Dr. Khushid Ayub and Dr. Mohammad HanifDepartment of Chemistry

Students Sports Week 2011 9 -13 May 2011

Results of Student's Sports Week are as under:

Winner: Earth Sciences Team Runner Up: Management Sciences Team

FOOTBALL

Report by Mr. Gulzar Raza

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EVENTS


Winner: Electrical Engineering Runner up: Management Sciences

CRICKET

Winner: Earth Sciences Runner up: Computer Science

Seven Stars Football Tournament for faculty and students

After successful completion of Students Sports tournament. Final match was played between Week, Sports Club provided another opportunity to Faculty and Students and the Students team all COMSIANS by arranging Seven Stars Football “BARBARIANS” won the match. Honourable Tournament. A total of 48 teams participated in the Director awarded trophies to winner and runner-up

Both positions were won by ERS

Winner: Hassan Qayum Runner Up: Nauman Gul

SQUASH (MALE)

SQUASH (FEMALE)

Winner: Miss Zainab Khalid, Environmental Sciences

Runner-up: Miss Saba, Biotechnology Program, Environmental Sciences

BASKETBALL

Winner:Electrical Engineering Runner-up:Earth Sciences

VOLLEY BALL

Osama Mehmood, Captain of Students Team getting Trophy from Worthy Director

Dr. Sajjad A. Madani, Captain of Faculty Team (Runner up) getting Trophy from worthy Director

EVENTS


Mr. Saad Khurshid, an all round player and and Mr. Kashif Khurshid, one of the best centre forward player of COMSATS combined Volleyball players of CIIT Abbottabad football team of all campuses participated participated in HEC Volleyball Championship twice in All Pakistan Universities games (HEC held in Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. football Competitions). Both are active members of COMSATS Mr. Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Abbasi, Captain of combined team too. Volleyball Team of CIIT Abbottabad Campus

Earth Sciences players participation in “All Pakistan Events”.

Mr. Saad Khurshid (Standing 1st from left) in HEC Games at Lahore.

Faculty Football match A Block VS Zee Block

for Fund raising for flood Afectees

TUG of WAR between Administration and Security


1. M. Hanif, M. Groessl, A. A. Nazarov, M. A. Jakupec, P. J. Dyson, B. K. Keppler, C. G. Hartinger, “Selective Modification of Proteins with Maleimide-functionalized Ru(Arene) Complexes and their Tumor-Inhibiting Properties”, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (2011), in press. (I.F: 3.415)

2. M. Hanif, H. Henke, S. M. Meier, M. A. Jakupec, B. K. Keppler, C. G. Hartinger, “Metal(II)-Arene Anticancer Complexes of 3-Hydroxy-2- pyridones: Synthesis, Cytotoxicity and Reactivity to Biomolecules”, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (2011), in press. (I.F:3.415)

4. Mohammad Asgher, Mohammad Yaqoob, Amir Waseem and Abdul Nabi, “Flow injection methods for the determination of Retinol and -Tocopherol using lucigenin enhanced chemiluminescence”, Luminescence DOI: 10.1002/bio.1246 2011

5. Attiq-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Yaqoob, Amir Waseem and Abdul Nabi, “Determination of subnanomolar concentrations of vanadium in environmental water samples using flow injection with luminol chemiluminescence detection”, Luminescence DOI: 10.1002/bio.1244, 2011.

6. Amir Waseem, Mohammad Yaqoob, Abdul Nabi, Izhar Hussain, “Flow-Injection spectrophotometric procedure for the determination of Uric Acid in Urine using Prussian blue reaction”, Chemical Research in Chinese Universities, 2011.

7. Attiq-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Yaqoob, Amir Waseem and Abdul Nabi, “Flow injection method for the determination of nitrite and nitrate in water samples based on luminol chemiluminescence detection”, Acta Chimica Slovenica, 2011.

8. Anwar Khalid, Amir Wasim, Malik Saadullah, Uzair-Ur-Rehman, Sonia Khilji, Ayesha Sethi, Muhammad Hassham Hassan Bin Asad, Fatima Rasool, Muhammad Lhurram

RESEARCH PAPERSDepartment of Chemistry

Published Papers

1. Kalsoom Farzana, Abdul Hameed, Ghulam Murtaza, Qazi Najam-ul-Saqib,Amir Waseem,

Muhammad Hassham Hasan Bin Asad and Izhaar Hussain, “Bactericidal activity of various brands of cephradine against Staphylococcus aureus”, International Journal of Physical Sciences. 6(6) (2011)1501-1507. IF. 0.58

2. Donglei Wu, Lili Wu, Qinhai Hu, Qaisar Mahmood and Afsar Khan, “The Sulfide Oxidation in an Electrolytic Sulfide Oxidizing Bioreactor using Graphite Anode” J. Chem. Soc. Pak. 2011, 33, 65-70

3. Umar Farooq, Azhar-ul-Haq Ali Shah, Diana Maria Freudendahl and Thomas Wirth,

“Synthesis of new Enantiomerically pure Organoiodine catalyst and their application in the Functionalization of ketones”, J .of Synthesis 6, 1023-1029 (2010).

4. Saleha Suleman Khan, Afsar Khan, Viqar-Uddin Ahmad, Amir Ahmad, Umar Farooq, Saima Arshid, etal., “Two new Disulfated Triterpenoids from Zygophyllum fabago Helv. Chim”, Acta 93, 2070-2074 (2010).

5. Shazia Iqbal, Afsar Khan, Viqar Uddin Ahmad, Sadia Badar, Umar Farooq, Saleha Suleman Khan and Aqib Zahoor, “Two new Triterpenoids from Zygophyllum eurypterum”, Natural Product Communications 6, 2, 179-182, (2011).

6. Rizwan ul Haq, Umar Farooq, Viqar Uddin Ahmed, Rafeeq Alam Khan, Mohsin Raza, “Investigation of Antitussive activity and Safety Profile of Butanolic Fraction of Ballota limbata in mice”, Pharmaceutical Biology, 49(6), 627-632 (2011).

7. Lubna Rishi, Saima Jadoon, Amir Waseem, Mohammad Yaqoob and Abdul Nabi, “Flow-injection methods for the determination of á-tocopherol with spectrophotometric detection”, Journal of The Chemical Society of Pakistan, 33(4) August 2011.

Accepted Papers

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Waqas and Ghulam Murtaza, “Antibacterial Activity Analysis of Extracts of Various Plants Against Gram Positive and Gram Negative Bacteria”, Afr. J. Pharm. Phamacol, 2011

Department of Electrical EngineeringPublished Papers

1. Dr. Laiq, Sidra Mumtaz and Kamran Javed, “Generators Maintenance Scheduling Using Harmony Search Algorithm”, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, 2010.

2. Dr. Laiq, Sidra Mumtaz and Kamran Javed, “Comparison of Genetic Algorithm and Harmony Search for Generators Maintenance Scheduling”, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, 2010.

3. Zia M. Loni, Rahat Ullah and Noor M. Khan, “Analysis of Fading statistics based on Angle of Arrival Measurements”, IEEE IWAT 2011.

Accepted Papers1. Fahimullah Khan and S.A. Bazaz, “Design, simulation and testing of Electrostatic SOI-MUMPs

microgripper with integrated Contact Sensor”, Journal of Sensors and Actuators. Elesvier, 2010.

Department of HumanitiesPublished Papers

1. Nasir Ali Khan, “Nifaaz-e- Islam aur Islami Riyasat Qurani Tanazur Mei”, Ehya'a ul Oloom, journal of the Department of Quran and Sunnah, University of Karachi.Voulme 6-2010, ISSN 1729-0988 Jan-June 2010

Department of Management Sciences

Published Papers1. Humera Khatab, Mariam Massod, Khalid Zaman, Sundus Saleem and Bilal Saeed,

“Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: A Case Study of Karachi Stock Market”, International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance, Vol. 2, Issue 1, ISSN: 2010-023X, February, 2011, pp. 39-43, 2011

2. Ubaid Ali, Umar Hassan, Khalid Zaman, Asad Javed & Syed Shiraz Ali Shah, “Building Employees Commitment: A Case Study of Higher Education Institutes in Pakistan”, Elixir Management Journal, ISSN 2229 -712X, Vol. 32, Issue, 11, pp. 2120-2125, March, 2011.

3. Junaid Ahmed, Khalid Zaman and Iqtidar Ali Shah, “An Empirical Analysis of Remittances-Growth Nexus in Pakistan Using Bounds Testing Approach”, Journal of Economics and International Finance, ISSN:2006-9812, Vol. 3(3), pp. 176-186, March 2011.

4. Sehrish Gul, Fiaza Irshad and Khalid Zaman, “Factors affecting Bank Profitability in Pakistan”, Romanian Economics Journal, ISSN, 1454-4296, Vol. 14, Issue 39, pp. 61-87, 2011

5. Atiya Ashraf, Seep Nadeem, Khalid Zaman and Ihtisham Malik, “Work Family Role Conflict and Organizational Commitment: A Case Study of Higher Education Institutes of Pakistan”, Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business, ISSN: 2073-7122, Vol. 2, Issue, 11, pp. 371-392, 2011

6. Muhammad Iqbal, Khurrum Hayat, Khalid Zaman and Muhammad Rafaqat, “Determinants of executive compensation and its impact on organizational performance”, International Journal of Information, Business and Management, ISSN 2076-9202 (Print), ISSN 2218-046X (Online), Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 55- 67, 2011

7. Ikram ul Haq, Muhammad Sohail, Khalid Zaman and Zaheer Alam, “The Relationship between Working Capital Management and Profitability: A Case Study of Cement Industry in Pakistan”, Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, ISSN 2039 - 2117 Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 365-372, 2011

8. Muhammad Asif, Qasim Shah (Q) and Khalid Zaman, “Devaluation and Output Growth: Evidence from Pakistan”, Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, ISSN 2039 - 2117 Vol.2, Issue 2, pp.394-401, 2011

9. Abdul Jalil Khan, Shaista Syed, Khalid Zaman and Fahim Ahmad, 2011. Students' Perception toward Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts of Tourism in ChitralPakistan”, Journal of International Academic Research, ISSN: 2040-8099, Vol. 11, Issue, 1, pp. 1-8.

10.Khalid Zaman, Waseem Ikram and Mehboob Ahmad, “The Study of Trade-Poverty Nexus in Pakistan: Under Investigation of Pro-Poor Trade Index (1985-2006)”, Indian Journal of Economics, ISSN 0019-5170, Vol. XIC, Issue. 360, Part-1, pp. 73-88.

11.Khalid Zaman, Iqtidar Ali Shah, Muhammad Mushtaq Khan and Waseem Ikram, “Phillips Curve in the SAARC region: Panel Data Analysis”, Alatoo Academic Studies, ISSN: 16945263, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 64-76.

12.Muhammad Iqbal and Khalid Zaman, “Dilemma of Kalabagh dam and Pakistan future”, Elixir Bio-Diversity, ISSN 2229 -712X, Vol. 3, pp.2917-2920, 2011

13.Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Khalid Zaman and Mansoor Nazir Bhatti, “Culture, Gender and Leadership Styles: Higher Education Management Perspective”, Management Science Letters, ISSN 1923-9343 (Online) - ISSN 1923-9335 (Print), May, 2011, vol.3 , issue 1, pp.1-21, 2011

14.Muhammad Shafiq Gul, “Brand Image and Brand Loyalty”, Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.3, No.1, 2011

15.Syed Afzal Moshadi Shah and Dr. Shehla Amjad, “Cultural Diversity in Pakistan: National vs Provincial”, Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, ISSN 2039 2117, Vol 2, No 2, pp 331-344, 2011

16.Muhammad Asif, “An analysis of Mathematics Anxiety and Mathematics Interest”, Elixir Management, ISSN 2229-712X, 2011

Accepted Papers1. Muhammad Asif and Kashif Rashid, “Impact Of Devaluation On Trade Balance In Pakistan”,

Economics of Knowledge2. Khalid Zaman and Mehboob Ahmad, “An Empirical Analyses of Long-run Poverty Elasticity in

Pakistan (1964-2006)”, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Peshawar, Pakistan 3. Malik Fahim Bashir, Mazhar Iqbal and Khalid Zaman, “Estimating Private Rate of Return on

Higher Education in Pakistan”, Review of Economics and Business Studies, 20114. Khalid Zaman (K), Muhammad Mushataq Khan and Mehboob Ahmad, “Measuring the

Impact of Industrialization and Financial Development on Water Resources: A Case Study of Pakistan”, Economia. Seria Management , 2011

5. Nazia Bashir, Amber Sardar, Khalid Zaman, Swati (A, K) and Shazia Fakhr, “Determinants of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Case Study of Higher Education In Pakistan”, PROFICIENT-An International Journal of Management, 2011

6. Muhammad Imran Qureshi and Khalid Zaman, “Waiting Time Management in the Student Affair/Admissions Offices: A Case Study of Pakistani Universities”, Journal of Marketing and Operations Management Research, 2011

Department of Computer SciencePublished Papers

1. Osman Khalid, Muhammad Junaid and Sajjad A. Madani, Comparative Study on Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds," 4th IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and


Information Technology (IEEE ICCSIT 2011).2. Saad Mustafa , Sajjad A. Madani , Kashif Bilal , Khizar Hayat and Samee U. Khan, “Stable-

path multi-channel routing with extended level channel assignment” International Journal of Communication Systems.

Department of Environmental Sciences

Published Papers

“1. Irshad, M., M. Inoue, M. Shezadi, M. Tariq and Faridullah, Investigating Ammonium,

Phosphorus and Potassium Release from Animal Manure during Composting”, J Food Agric Environ. 9(2): 629-631, 2011

2. Irshad, M., A. Khan, M. Inoue, M. Ashraf and H. Sher, “Identifying factors affecting agroforestry system in Swat area- Pakistan”, African J. Agric. Research, 6(11): 2586-2593, 2011

3. Qaisar Mahmood, Shams Ali Baig, Bahadar Nawab, Mustafa Nawaz Shafqat and Arshid Pervez, “Development of low cost household drinking water treatment system for 2 the earthquake affected communities in Northern Pakistan”, Desalination , 273 (2011) 316320 (ISI, IF: 2.034).

4. Tingting Chen, Ping Zheng, Lidong Shen, Shuang Ding and Qaisar Mahmood, “Kinetic characteristics and microbial community of Anammox-EGSB reactor”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 190(1-3):28-35 (SCI, IF : 4.125).

5. Zulfiqar Ahmad Bhatti, Qaisar Mahmood, Iftikhar Ahmad Raja, Amir Haider Malik, Muhammad Suleman Khan and Donglei Wu, “Chemical oxidation of carwash industry wastewater as an effort to decrease water pollution”, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth , Parts A/B/C, 36(9-11)465-469 (SCI, IF = 1.138), 2011

6. Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhatti, Qaisar Mahmood, Iftikhar Ahmad Raja, Amir Haider Malik, Naim Rashid and Donglei Wu, “Integrated chemical treatment of domestic wastewater using waste hydrogen peroxide and ultraviolet light”, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 36(9-11)459-464 (SCI, IF : 1.138).

7. Faiza Rehman, Arshid Pervez, Muhammad Awais and Mohammad Maroof Shah,

“Phenylthiocarbamide Tasting and its Implications: A Preliminary Study on Human Population Genetics in Hazara Division Pakistan”, Pakistan J. Zool.[in press] (ISI, IF: 0.2), 2011

8. M. Ali, T. A. Naqvi, F. Rasheed, M. Kanwal, A. Hameed, and S. Ahmed, “Detection of the organophosphate degrading gene opdA in the newly isolated bacterial strain Bacillus pumilus W1”, Annals of Microbiology DOI 10.1007/s 13213-011-0251-4, 2011

9. F. Rasheed, T. Ahmad, M. Ali, S. Ali, S. Ahmed, and R. Bilal, “High frequency of cagA and vacA sla/m2 genotype among Helicobacter pylori infected gastric biopsies of Pakistani children”, Malaysian Journal of Microbiology Vol 7 (3), 2011

10.Sara Sestili, Annalisa Polverari, Laura Luongo, Alberto Ferrarini, Michele Scotton, Jamshaid Hussain, Massimo Delledonne, Nadia Ficcadenti and Alessandra Belisario, “Differential colonization patterns and cDNA-AFLP transcriptome analysis in compatible and incompatible interactions of melon with different races of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Melonis”, BMC Genomics 12:122 (IF: 3.76)

Accepted Papers

, 1. Naureen, A., M. Irshad, F. Hussain and Q. Mahmood “Comparing Heavy Metals Accumulation

Potential in Natural Vegetation and Soil Adjoining Wastewater Canal”, J. Chemical Society of Pakistan, 33(6), 2011

2. Irshad, M., N. Malik, T. Khan and Faridullah, “Effect of solid waste on heavy metal composition of soil and water system of Nathiagali-Abbottabad”, J. Chemical Society of Pakistan. Oct, 2010.

3. Ihsanullah Khan, Asim Yaqub, M. Awais, Huma Asim, Romana Jamshed, and I.A.

Faridi, “Monitoring of Fecal Coliforms in Drinking Water Sources of Tehsil Mardan, Pakistan”, Pakistan J. Zool., vol. 43(3), pp. 600-601, 2011

4. Khan, Muhammad Saqib., Qaisar Mahmood, Kahkashan Akbar and Mohammad Maroof Shah, “Assessment of Pesticide Residues on Selected Vegetables of Pakistan”, J. Chem. Soc. Pak [accepted] (ISI, IF: 0.91), 2011

5. Khan, U. W., M. M. Shah, “Physical and genetic analysis of ph1gene region on the long arm of chromosome 5B in wheat and related cereals”, Pak. J. Bot. [accepted] (ISI, IF: 0.52, 2011

6. Rahman, H., S. Pekic, V. Lazic-Jancic, S. A. Quarrie, S.M.A. Shah, A. Pervez, U. W. Khan, and M. M. Shah, “Molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci for drought tolerance at vegetative state of maize plants”, Genet. Mol. Res. xxx-xxx, (ISI, IF:0.844), 2011

7. Naseer Ahmad, Iftikhar Ahmad Raja and Qaisar Mahmood, “Comparative Effect of Saccharum bengalense Retz. and Vetiver zizanioides (L.) Nash on Surface Runoff and Sediment Loss at Varying Slope Gradients”, Journal of Science and Technology, Volume-34 No.1, 2011.

8. Naseer Ahmad, Iftikhar Ahmad Raja and Qaisar Mahmood, “Soil Loss Calculator for Runoff and Soil Erosion Risk on Given Slopes with Bare Soil and Vegetative Cover”, Journal of Science and Technology, Volume-34 No.2, 2011.

9. Shams Ali Baig, Qaisar Mahmood, Bahadar Nawab, Mustafa Nawaz Shafqat, Arshid Pervez, “Improvement of drinking water quality by using plant biomass through household biosand filter- A decentralized approach”, Ecological Engineering (ISI, IF : 2.8)

Department of Pharmacy

Published Papers

1. M. Ejaz, Ghulam Murtaza, M. Ahmad, S. A. Khan, Qazi Najam-ul-Saqib, Muhammad Hassham Hassan Bin Asad, Aamir Waseem, K. Farzana and Izhar Hussain, “Determination of the Prevalence of Entamoeba histolytica in Human at a Private Fertilizer Company Hospital in Pakistan using Microscopic Technique”' African Journal of Microbiology Research, 5(2), 149-152, 2011, (IF:0.407)

2. M. I. Khan, Ghulam Murtaza, S. Awan, M. Iqbal, M. K. Waqas, A. Rasool, Muhammad Hassham Hassan Bin Asad, A. Kahlid, F. Usman, Qazi Najam-us-Saqib, S. A. Khan, K. Farzana, S. Mahmood and Izhar Hussain, “Development and validation of stability indicating assay method of cetirizine hydrochloride by HPLC”' African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 5(2), 143-149, 2011, (IF: 0.667)

3. Ghulam Murtaza, “Matrix Type Transdermal Delivery System of Diclofenac Potassium-Skin Permeation and Pharmacokinetic Profile” Asian Journal of Chemistry, 23(6), 2471-2477, 2011, ( I F : 0.21)

4. Ghulam Murtaza, “Formulation and characterization of modified release tablets containing isoniazid using swellable polymers”, African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines, 8(3), 250-259, 2011, (IF: 0.337)

5. K. Farzana, A. Hameed, M. K. Waqas, Ghulam Murtaza, Qazi Najam-ul-Saqib, Aamir Waseem, Muhammad Hassham Hasan Bin Asad and Izhar Hussain, “Bactericidal activity of various brands of cephradine against Staphylococcus aureus”. International Journal of Physical Sciences, 06(6), 1501-1507, 2011, (IF: 0.554)

6. A. Khalid, U. Rehman, A. Sethi, S. Khilji, U. Fatima, M. I. Khan, M. K. Waqas, Qazi Najam-us-Saqib, Muhammad Hassham Hassan Bin Asad, K. Farzana, S. Mahmood, Aamir Waseem, Tariq Ismail and Ghulam Murtaza, “Antimicrobial activity analysis of extracts of Acacia modesta, Artimisia absinthium, Nigella sativa and Saussurea lappa against Gram positive and Gram negative microorganisms”, African Journal of Biotechnology, 10 (22), 4574-4580, 2011, (IF: 0.565)

7. Ghulam Murtaza, “Fabrication of Novel Gastro-retentive Floating Microcapsules by utilizing Combination of HPMC and EC and their Physicochemical Assessment”' Latin American Journal of

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Pharmacy, 30 (5), 1010-1015, 2011, (IF: 0.309)l F. Rasool, M. Ahmad, Ghulam Murtaza, H. M. S. Khan and S. A. Khan, “Comparative

Dissolution Study of Metoprolol Tartrate loaded PLGA (50:50) and PLGA (75:25) Microparticles”' Asian Journal of Chemistry, 23(9), 3815-3818, 2011, (IF: 0.21)

This paper uses panel data analysis for the been used to test the validity of the Phillips Curve in period of 1990-2008 to examine the relationship the SAARC region. Specification tests (F-test and between the unemployment rate and inflation Hausman test) indicate that the random effect rate in the SAARC countries comprising model could be considered as the best model to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, examine the relationship between unemployment Pakistan and Srilanka. The trade-off relationship and inflation. The paper finds that there is no between unemployment and wage inflation rate significant relationship between the inflation rates in the United Kingdom was pointed out by and unemployment rates in the SAARC countries. In William Phillips in 1958. His popular hypothesis short, empirical findings did not support the Phillips Curve remains an important foundation existence of a Phillips Curve in the region. This study for macroeconomics. In this paper three opens new dimensions for policy planners, different panel data methods i.e. pooled least government agencies, NGO s and other donor square, fixed effects and random effects have agencies working in the SAARC region.

ABSTRACTS

Department of Chemistry

Bactericidal activity of various brands of cephradine against Staphylococcus aureus

Kalsoom Farzana, Abdul Hameed, Ghulam Murtaza, Qazi Najam-ul-Saqib, Amir Waseem,

Muhammad Hassham Hasan Bin Asad and Izhar Hussain

A retrospective eight-year study (January 1998 cephradine. The high level of bacterial resistance to to December 1999 and January 2008 to different cephradine brands was observed for these December 2009) was under taken in a isolates after incubation of 18 to 24 h. Majority of Government Hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan to the isolates had MIC 50 to 90 in response to 64 to evaluate bactericidal activity of various brands 512 mg/ mL of various brands of cephradine. While, of cephradine against Staphylococcus aureus. 512 and above 1024 mg/mL of antibiotic had shown The maximum resistance of the bacterium was the maximum bactericidal activity. The study observed for ampic il lin, penic il lin and suggested that the presence or absence of cotrimaxazole, Where as, the min imum antibiotic-resistant subpopulations among S. resistance was exhibited against vancomycin. aureus isolates and their selection during treatment One hundred and fifty five clinical isolates were should be considered when therapy is advised.further tested for minimum inhibitory concentration against various brands of

Department of Management Sciences

The Study of Trade Poverty Nexus in Pakistan: Under Investigation of Pro-Poor Trade Index (PPTI)

Khalid Zaman, Waseem Ikram and Mehboob Ahmad.

Pakistan's trade suffers seriously due to various Pakistan. Data is analyzed from 1985-2006. This structural issues which need to be addressed. research is extended within the phenomena of Pro-Effective and sound trade policy plays an poor Growth Index (PPGI) as proposed by Kakwani important role in alleviating poverty nation- & Pernia (2000). Results reveal that during the last wide. Pro-Poor Trade Index (PPTI) deals with two decades, three phases are regarded as Pro-the dynamic aspect of trade poverty inequality. poor. First phase is from 198586, second phase is The aim of this study is to investigate the from 1990-91 and the third phase is from 1997-99. potential impact of trade policy on the poor in While remaining period is pro-rich or anti-poor.

Cumulative effect of two decades is Pro-poor makers in developing strategies and policies for nation-wide at rural level, whereas it is anti-poor enhancing trade thereby alleviating poverty.at urban level. This analysis helps decision

Phillips Curves in The Saarc Region: Panel Data Analysis (1990-2008)

Khalid Zaman, Iqtidar Ali Shah, Muhammad Mushtaq Khan and Waseem Ikram

The Impact of Culture and Gender on Leadership Behaviour: Higher Education and Management Perspective

Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Khalid Zaman and Mansoor Nazir Bhatti

The study of culture, gender and leadership with each other and cooperate to achieve behavior has received much interest from organizational goals. The seven cultural elements researchers during the last three decades. This measured in the current study i.e., i) member paper attempts to propose a conceptual identity ii) rewards criteria iii) team emphasis iv) framework consisting three human resource means-end orientation v) control vi) unit integration management (HRM) practices (culture, gender and vii) risk/ conflict tolerance. Results showed that and leadership styles) and to explain the the culture has a significant influence on male relationship among these variables. Culture leaders to adopt different leadership styles, but played an important role to adopt different female leaders likely participate in their leadership leadership styles because it influence the way in positions and try to adopt democratic leadership in which individuals, groups and teams interact different cultures.

Work Family Role Conflict and Organizational Commitment:A Case Study of Higher Education Institutes of Pakistan

Atiya Ashraf, Seep Nadeem, Khalid Zaman and Ihtisham Malik

This study empirically examines the relationship collected from one hundred and forty academicians between work-family conflict and Organizational of various educational institutes in Pakistan. The commitment in higher education institutes in the data was analyzed using the techniques of one way Khyber Pakhtonkhuwa Province (KPK) of ANOVA, rank correlation coefficient and multiple Pakistan. The study is based on primary data regression analysis. All the findings are tested at


0.01 and 0.05 level of significance. The finding organizational commitment. The results of the study implies that there is significant relationship are valuable to both academics and policy makers.between workfamily role conflict and

The main objective of the study was to develop media. cost effective media for arsenic removal using Although, a number of plant materials resulted naturally occurring material and some other arsenic removal in the range 30-80%, however the inexpensive materials. In the present study, low biomass of Pinus wallichiana produced promising cost naturally occurring materials; shell of results compared to other media tested. The walnut (Juglans regia), wood pieces of Biar biomass of this plant was found to be most efficient (Pinus wallichiana) and testa of chick peas one as more than 90% removal of arsenic was (Cicer arietinum) were subjected to trials for achieved from standard solutions. The results the removal of arsenic. Whereas among other suggest that this plant material has the potential to materials, brick powder was also investigated as be used as one of the low cost absorbing media for adsorbent to remove arsenic from aqueous arsenic removal.

Completed Projects of MS StudentsSession Fall 2009

Industrial Chemistry Projects

Development of Different Media for Arsenic Removal from Potable Water

Ahmad Nauman Shah Saqib and Abdur Rahman Khan

The main objective of this study is to investigate Different doses of the above chemicals individually the potential of different chemicals having and in different combinations were applied on three capability of lowering the pH of soil to make it different textures of soil using paste of soil with suitable for tea plantation. Several treatments water (1:1) and were studied over the period of two have been reported previously for lowering the months. Although, all chemicals and treatments pH. However, due to the buffering capacity of lowered the pH significantly however Al2(SO4)3 and soil, pH of soil resists to change and were not its combination produced promising results efficient over the long period of time. The compared to the others. This chemical was found to required pH range for tea plantation is 4.5-5.5. be most efficient as it resisted the change in pH due For this purpose, several chemicals having pH to modification in buffering capacity of soil. The loweri ng capabi li ty we re invest igated . amended pH remained almost constant for longer Chemicals used were aluminum sulphate period of time. The results indicated that after the (Al2(SO4)3), crude sulphur (S), hydrogen treatment, initially there was a decrease in pH and peroxide (H2O2), hydrochloric acid (HCl) and then very low increment was observed. S also sulphuric Acid (H2SO4). These chemicals were showed good results. It reduced the pH significantly subjected to trials individually and in after taking time for its action so, can be used alone supplements besides using their different ratios. and in combinations as well.

An Investigation on the Amendment in Buffering Capacity of the Soil to Make it Suitable for Tea Plantation

Tanzeela Fazal and Abdur Rahman Khan

COMPOSITE MATERIAL CHEMISTRY PROJECTS:Synthesis ,Characterization and Biological Studies of the Ni and

Mg Based Mono and Bi Metallic Nano Materials

Nazma Shaheen and Abida Kalsoom Khan

Synthesis of metal nano-particles is carried out time and temperature greatly effect the size of by using solvothermal method. Metal nano- nano-particles. The particles thus obtained were particles have been obtained by mixing metal characterized by XRD, SEM and TGA. Their salts and ligand under the inert atmosphere. catalytic, antifungal, and antibacterial activities Nano-particles in the size range of 100-300 nm have been checked.have been synthesized. It is found that reaction

Synthesis ,Spectroscopic Characterization and Study of Thermal Behavior of the Zn and Co Nano Materials

Sheraz Ahmed and Abida Kalsoom Khan

Nanoparticles are synthesized and characterized done. Nano-particles were also tested for various by the XRD, SEM, EDX, TG, DTA. Thermal applications such as catalytic activity, behavior and kinetic studies have also been antibacterial, enzymatic inhibition

Almighty Allah has provided mankind with consti tuents . Thi s plant has tri terpenoids, different varieties of plants but only 20% of the polyphenols and flavonoids and chemical medicinal plants have been explored. For constituents have promising biological activities. millennia Medicinal plants play vital role in The plant was passed through different stages. alleviating human sufferings. So it is the need of Diffe rent techniques were used, such as time to have research work on medicinal plants chramatography for isolation, UV, IR, NMR and mass of Pakistan. So the plant Crataegus songarica spectroscopy for structure elucidation of compound. was selected to explore the pharmaceutically Ursolic acid, â. Amyrin was isolated during the important compounds, it belongs to the family research work. The antioxidant activity and total Rosaceae. In Pakistan, it is found in KPK, phenolic contents of the plants were measured. The Balochistan and Punjab. plant has marked antioxidant activity.Literature survey on the genus Crataegus has revealed that it contains very promisig

NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY PROJECTS

Phytochemical Studies of the Plant Crataegus songarica from theRosaceae Family

Saira Sajjad and Ather Farooq Khan

Dr. Muhammad Hanif has been invited to Cambridge, UK from June 20-23, 2011. For th

present his work in “11 International participation in the above mentioned Conference on Metal Ions in Biology and conference, he has been awarded a travel grant Medicine” to be held at the University of of Rs. 2,21,215 by HEC.

Dr. Mohammad Hanif has been invited at the University of Cambridge

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Nature has kept a huge benefit for human their characterization and structural elucidation beings. Naturally occurring plants have been was performed by using spectroscopic techniques very important for human beings both and Isolation of compounds from pyrus pashia economically and medicinally. Medicinal plants yields â-sitosterol and Ursolic acid. total phenolic occurring in nature provides assistance to the contents were checked in the crude extract of the human beings, keeping in mind the medicinal plant including methanol extract taking gallic acid importance of plants, Phytochemical studies of as standard and by noticing the change in Pyrus pashia was investigated. Pyrus pashia absorbance of different concentrations by occurs widely in Pakistan. A phytochemical spectrophotometer. NO radical scavenging investigation was carried out, for which ethyl activity and anti-oxidant activity was checked by acetate fraction was taken and studies were implementing assay within the department. By i n v e s t i g a t e d f i r s t l y u s i n g c o l u m n using modified 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl chromatography (CC) followed by thin layer (DPPH) method, free radica l scavenging chromatography (TLC), ident ification and capability was measured, taking nPG as standard structure elucidation was done by using all and ethyl acetate fraction shows the minimum IC 50

spectroscopic techniques such as ,UV, IR, MS values which showed anti-oxidant activity of ethyl and NMR. Two compounds were isolated and acetate fraction is best amongst all fractions.

Tigation of Pyrus pashiaSafeena Sabir and Ather Farooq Khan

Phytochemical Studies of Rumex dentatus of Family Polygonaceae

Hamad Khalid and Ather Farooq Khan

Nature is playing an important role for the propyle gallate (nPG) as standard and ethyl benefits of human being. Naturally occurring acetate fraction shows the minimum IC50 values plants have been very important for human which showed anti-oxidant activity of ethyl beings both economically and medicinally. acetate fraction is best amongst all fractions. A Human beings have being assisted from the phytochemical investigation was carried out, for medically important plants. Keeping in mind the which ethyl acetate fraction was taken and studies medicinal importance of plants, phytochemical we re invest igated fi rs tl y us ing co lumn studies of Rumex dentatus were investigated. chromatography (CC) followed by thin layer Rumex dentatus occurs in Punjab province and chromatography (TLC), identi fication and especial ly in Hazara division of Khyber structure elucidation was done by using all Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Fractions of spectroscopic techniques such as ,UV, IR, MS and methanol, n-hexane, ethyl acetate and butanol, NMR. Two compounds were isolated, one from were formed. Total phenolic contents were ethyl acetate (AQ derivative) and other from n-checked in the crude extract of the plant hexane fraction. Spectroscopic techniques were including methanol extract taking gallic acid as used for the characterization and structural standard and by noticing the change in elucidation of isolated compounds and they were absorbance of different concentrations by using identified as â-sitosterol and anthraquinone spectrophotometer. Nitric oxide (NO) radical derivative. According to the best of our knowledge scavenging activity and anti-oxidant activity was it is the first report of isolation of â-sitosterol and checked by implementing assay within the an anthraquinone from Rumex dentatusdepartment. Free radical scavenging capability was measured by using modified 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) method, taking n-

Almighty Allah has provided mankind with and flavonoids. These chemical constituents have different varieties of plants but only 20% of the promising biological activities. All this has prompted medicinal plants have been explored. So it is me to choose this plant. The plant was passed needed to have research work on the plants in through different stages. Different techniques were Pakistan. So a plant was chosen to explore the used, such as chromatography for isolation, UV, IR, hidden compounds from the plant. Alnus nitida NMR and Mass spectrometry for structure was the selected plant. It belongs to the family elucidation of compound. Ursolic acid, â-Sitosterol, betulaceae. It is found in Pakistan in North and and Oleanolic acid, were isolated during the west region of Pakistan. Literature survey on the research work. The antioxidant activity of the plants genus Alnus has revealed that very little was measured. The plant has marked antioxidant phytochemical investigation is carried out. The activity.genus contains triterpenoids, diarylheptanoids,

Phytochemical Studies of Alnus nitidaAisha Hameed and Afsar Khan

About 80% of the population of the developing mind such importance of plants Dorema aucheri was world depends on plants for their health concerns. selec ted for the biological investigat ion. The Majority of plants are famous for therapeutic chloroform extract was selected for the study to properties. The pre-historic man has used the investigate the compounds. The extract was plants as a food source, and during their search for investigated first using column chromatography and new plants they found some of the plants as a then followed by thin layer chromatography, remedy for ailments. In this way, the folk use of identification and structure elucidation was done by different plants was developed for the treatment of using spectroscopic techniques like UV, IR, EI-MS and various diseases centuries ago. Terrestrial plants, NMR. In the result two compounds Ursolic acid and â-fungi, bacteria as well as marine organisms are a amyrin methyl ether were isolated from Dorema great source of novel secondary metabolites. Most aucheri and their structure were confirmed by of these secondary metabolites have interesting spectroscopic techniques like 1D- and 2D-NMR, IR, UV biological properties and many of them are used in and Mass spectrometry.pharmaceutical industry as medicine. Keeping in

Isolation and Characterization of

Fateh Ullah and Afsar Khan

Phytochemical Investigation of Periploca aphylla.

Saba Suleman and Umar Farooq

Plants provided shelter, clothings, food, medicines active ingredients. Different techniques were used for and even became source for traditional values and isolation, purification and analysis of natural norms and transpostrtation. Plants have been compounds from plants. Periploca aphylla possesses used as medicines for very long time. Medicinal extraordinary medicinal properties. So it was selected plants and the ir ex trac ts are used by for phytochemical studies. The crude extract was approximately three-quarters of world population subjected to column chromatography and eluted with for health purposes. Out of the 2,50,000 plant different solvent system. Five compounds â-Amyrin, species, more than 80,000 have medicinal ursolic acid, oleanolic acid and two other compounds properties. Green plants produce a vast range of were isolated. Purity was checked by thin layer biochemical products which can easily be obtained chromatography. Most of which are triterpenoids. The by extraction. Plants contain biologically active structure elucidations were carried out using UV, IR, compounds especially used in Ayurveda. Few of MS and NMR. This thesis is a short effort to enlighten the flowering plants provided 120 therapeutic the importance of medicinal plants through agents of known structures from 90 species of phytochemical studies of a plant.plants. Medicines comprise of natural products as

Chemical Constituents of Dorema aucheri


Amoebiasis is still a big problem of human was more prevalent (31.5%) in female hosts as civilization at the beginning of 21st century, so compared (19.6%) in male hosts . The every study from this field is valuable. The relationship between age and E. histolytica in present study elaborated the prevalence of human was also determined. According to these Entamoeba histolytica in Pakistani human. results, E. histolytica had highest prevalence During the study, 4712 fecal samples of human (28.7%) in age group of 1 day - 5 years, 13.9 % were studied by using microscope from October in age group of 6 - 15 years and the infection 2008 to January 2010 at a private fertilizer was 12.1% in age group of 16 - 59 years. High company hospital, Engro Fertilizers, Pakistan. prevalence of E. histolytica in females, young Out of 4712 hosts, 52.1% were infected with E. ones and older people is due to low immunity, histolytica. The relationship between sex and E. low level of hygiene, poor sanitary conditions histolytica in human was calculated. According and other socioeconomical factors.to these results, the infection of E. histolytica

Department of PharmacyDetermination of the Prevalence of Entamoeba histolytica in Human at a Private Fertilizer Company Hospital in Pakistan

using Microscopic Technique

M. Ejaz, Ghulam Murtaza, M. Ahmad, S. A. Khan, Qazi Najam-ul-Saqib, Muhammad Hassham Hassan Bin Asad, Aamir Waseem, K. Farzana, Izhar Hussain.

The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare permeability coefficient kp (cm/s) and diffusion matrix type patch formulations of diclofenac coefficient D (cm2/s) were determined for the p o t a s s i u m , p r e p a r e d b y prepared formulations in comparison with the hydroxylpropylmethylcellulose (HPMC 4000 controls. Skin permeation enhancers like cps), polyvinylpyrolidine (PVP K-30) and isopropyl myristate (IPM), isopropyl palmitate ammonio-methacrylate copolymer type A (IPP) and nonionic surfactant (Tween 80) (Eudragit RL- 100). The effect of various skin showed significant (p < 0.05) increment in the permeation enhancers on permeation permeation of diclofenac potassium. The characteristics of the diclofenac potassium from pharmacokinetic parameters of the optimized the prepared formulations through hairless formulation (F4) were calculated from the blood abdominal rabbit skin was studied by using levels of the drug revealed a profile typical of modified Franz diffusion cell. The patch sustained release formulation with the ability to formulations were compared with formulation maintain adequate plasma levels for 24 h (i.e., controls (without enhancers). The cumulative up to the next application). AUC(0-24), Tmax amounts permeated and the fluxes were higher and Cmax were 28.59 ± 5.34 ng h/mL, 5 h ± 1.1 for the prepared formulations as compared to and 2.606 ± 0.21 ng mL-1, respectively. The the controls. Skin permeation studies revealed amount of drug bioavailable for targeting the better skin permeation characteristics of site of action is higher than that of market diclofenac potassium using isopropyl myristate control. Based on experimental results, than isopropyl palmitate and Tween 80. The preparation of 5 % diclofenac potassium matrix cumulative amount permeated at 36 h (ìg/cm2), type patch formulation containing isopropyl steady-state flux Jss (ìg/cm2 h), lag time tL (h), myristate is promising.

Matrix Type Transdermal Delivery System of DiclofenacPotassium-Skin Permeation and Pharmacokinetic Profile

Ghulam Murtaza

An experimental platform that provides an current trends in the research in these testbeds. opportunity for researchers to physically test the The paper discusses the various parameters that real-time behavior of mobile wireless sensor have to be taken into consideration like Mobility, nodes is called a Testbed. A lot of work is already Control, Medium Access, Energy utilization, done in the testbeds of wireless sensor networks Localization, Hardware/Software requirements, with static nodes. However there are a few and outlines the major challenges in the testbeds that provide testing for sensor nodes designing of MWSNTs. With this survey it can be with pure mobility. This paper is performing a seen that MWSNTs provide an interesting area of comparative study only for MobileWireless research in the designing and deployment of Sensor Network Testbeds (MWSNTs) with an autonomous mobile wireless sensor devices.intention to provide a quick reference for the

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Comparative Study on Mobile Wireless Sensor Network TestbedsOsman Khalid, Muhammad Junaid and Sajjad A. Madani

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have gained routing, we propose a novel proactive protocol, considerable popularity in recent times thanks the stable-path multi-channel routing protocol to their selfhealing, self-organizing, and self- (SMRP). Our proposed solution, to address configuring nature. Because of their ability to channel assignment, is the extended level-provide high throughput and minimum packet based channel assignment (ELCA) scheme. delay, WMNs are considered to be favorable for SMRP is designed to work in combination with broadband applications. For such applications, ELCA in order to minimize interference and WMNs employ multiple channels, which give balance the load among the underlying nodes. rise to issues like channel assignment, load Simulation results show enhanced throughput balancing, and interference avoidance. Most of and minimal packet delay as compared with the these issues fall into two broad categories, contemporary schemes.namely routing and channel assignment. For

Stable-path multi-channel routing with extended level channel assignment

Saad Mustafa , Sajjad A. Madani , Kashif Bilal , Khizar Hayat and Samee U. Khan

Mr. Khalid Zaman, Assistant Professor, Environmental/dp/3639342445Department Management Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad has published another book titled Co-authors of the book include the following: “Environmental and Growth Factors l Dr. Mohammad Mushtaq Khan Jadoon Review: A Case Study of Pakistan”. The l Mr. Imran Qureshibook is available online at:Http://www.amazon.com/ENVIRONMENTAL- Congratulations to them from the CIIT G R O W T H - F A C T O R S - R E V I E W - Abbottabad's family.

Book Published by Mr. Khalid ZamanDepartment of Management Sciences


The aim of this work was to develop swellable observed upto the 12th hour. Formulations with modified release (MR) isoniazid tablets using PVAc to Na-CMC ratio 20:80 exhibited zero order different combinations of polyvinyl acetate re lease patt ern at leve ls of studied (PVAc) and sodium-carboxymethylcellulose (Na- concentrations, which suggested that this CMC). Granules were prepared by moist combination can be used to formulate zero order granulation technique and then compressed into release tablets of water soluble drugs like tablets. In vitro release studies for 12 hr were isoniazid. Korsmeyer-Peppas modeling of drug carried out in dissolution media of varying pH i.e. release showed that non-Fickian transport is the pH 1.2, 4.5, 7.0 and 7.5. Tablets of all primary mechanism of isoniazid release from formulations were found to be of good physical PVAc and Na-CMC based tablets. The value of quality with respect to appearance (width and mean dissolution time decreased with the thickness), content uniformity, hardness, weight increase in the release rate of drug clearly variation and friability. In vitro release data showing the retarding behavior of the swellable showed that increasing total polymer content polymers. The application of a mixture of PVAc to resulted in more retarding effect. Formulation Na-CMC in a specific ratio may be feasible to with 35% polymer content exhibited zero order formulate zero order release tablets of water release profile and it released 35% of the drug in soluble drugs like isoniazid.first hr, later on, controlled drug release was

Formulation and characterization of modified release tablets containing isoniazid using swellable polymers

Ghulam Murtaza

A retrospective eight-year study (January 1998 to cephradine. The high level of bacterial resistance December 1999 and January 2008 to December to different cephradine brands was observed for 2009) was under taken in a Government Hospital these isolates after incubation of 18 to 24 h. in Islamabad, Pakistan to evaluate bactericidal Majority of the isolates had MIC 50 to 90 in activity of various brands of cephradine against response to 64 to 512 ?g/ mL of various brands of Staphylococcus aureus. The maximum resistance cephradine, While, 512 and above 1024 ?g/mL of of the bacterium was observed for ampicillin, antibiotic had shown the maximum bactericidal penicillin and cotrimaxazole, Where as, the activity. The study suggested that the presence or minimum resistance was exhibited against absence of antibiotic-resistant subpopulations vancomycin. One hundred and fifty five clinical among S. aureus isolates and their selection isolates were further tested for minimum during treatment should be considered when inhibitory concentration against various brands of therapy is advised.

Bactericidal activity of various brands of cephradine against Staphylococcus aureus

K. Farzana, A. Hameed, M. K. Waqas, Ghulam Murtaza, Qazi Najam-ul-Saqib, Aamir Waseem, Muhammad Hassham Hasan Bin Asad and Izhar Hussain

evaluated against three Gram positive and two observed against B. subtalis and S. aureus. Gram negative microorganisms. The Gram Similarly, the maximum zone of inhibition of 18 positive organisms included Bacillus subtalis mm of cold water extract of N. sativa against S. (ATCC 6633), Entereococcus faecalis (ATCC aureus and methanolic extract of Saussurea 14506) and Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 6538) lappa against S. aureus and Pseudomonas and the Gram negative organisms included aeruginosa was also observed. The antibacterial Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 27853) and action was compared with the effect of Salmonella typhi (ATCC 14028). Methanolic, hot ceftriaxone, ceftriaxone sodium, cefuroxine, water and cold water extracts of these plants ciprofloxacin, gentamycine, levofloxacin, were taken for antibacterial assay through Discs metronidazole and tranexamic acid that were agar diffusion technique using commercial filter used as standered drugs. Based on the results paper discs applied on inoculated Muellar Hinton obtained in this study, it may be concluded that agar plates. The objective of this study was to plant extracts of A. modesta, A. absinthium, N. explore the curative powers of these herbs that sativa and Saussurea lappa have a stronger and exist in nature as a tool to counter disease broader spectrum of antimicrobial activity causing agents. The maximum zone of inhibition against a number of food borne bacteria.of 18 mm of methanolic extract of N. sativa was

Antimicrobial activity analysis of extracts of Acacia modesta, Artimisia absinthium, Nigella sativa and Saussurea lappa against Gram positive and

Gram negative microorganisms

A. Khalid, U. Rehman, A. Sethi, S. Khilji, U. Fatima, M. I. Khan, M. K. Waqas, Qazi Najam-us-Saqib, Muhammad Hassham Hassan Bin Asad,

K. Farzana, S. Mahmood, Aamir Waseem, Tariq Ismail, Ghulam Murtaza

Fabrication of Novel Gastro-retentive Floating Microcapsules by utilizing Combination of HPMC and EC and their

Physicochemical Assessment

Ghulam Murtaza

The project was aimed to develop floating FTIR and XRD to evaluate TmH-HPMC-EC microcapsules (FMs) using combination of a interaction. As EC concentration was increased hydrophobic (ethyl ce llulose, EC) and the retardation in drug release, improvement in hydrophilic polymer (hydroxy propyl methyl flow characteristics and decrease in floating cellulose, HPMC), and to evaluate them. An easy time were observed. Kinetics of drug release and novel phase separation method was was followed by Korsmeyer-Peppas kinetic adopted to prepare FMs. Chloroform and model. It was concluded that the floating paraffin oil were employed as solvent and non- microcapsules of TmH can be produced using solvent respectively. Five kinetic models were phase separation method and they have no applied to assess and describe the mechanism drug-polymer interaction. The accelerated and pattern of tramadol hydrochloride (TmH) s tab i l i t y s tud ies a l so ensured the release from FMs and they were subjected to physicochemical integrity of Fms.

Antimicrobial activity of extracts of certain herbs Artimisia absinthium (leaf and stem), Nigella including Acacia modesta (leaf and stem), sativa (seeds) and Saussurea lappa (root) was

Comparative Dissolution Study of Metoprolol Tartrate loaded PLGA (50:50) and PLGA (75:25) Microparticles

F. Rasool, M. Ahmad, Ghulam Murtaza, H. M. S. Khan and S. A. Khan

To prepare and evaluate comparatively the ta r t ra te con ten ts were de te rm ined dissolution behaviour of metoprolol tartrate spectrophotometrical ly at 273 nm. Drug loaded PLGA (50:50) and PLGA (75:25) polymer compatibility was determined by FTIR, microparticles. Metoprolol tartrate loaded PLGA XRD and thermal analysis. Microparticle microparticles were prepared using non-solvent morphology was characterized by SEM. In vitro addition phase separation technique with drug dissolution studies for microparticles were to polymer ratio 1:1, 1:2 and 1:3. Metoprolol performed in phosphate buffer pH 7.2 and the


The devastating earthquake of 2005 severely results showed that pre-treatment values of damaged over 4000 water and sanitation drinking water for Escherichia coli, total schemes in northern Pakistan. The present coliforms and turbidity were 101 cfu/100 ml, 73 study aimed at testing a low cost household cfu/100 ml and turbidity 44 and 16 NTU, sand filter (HSF) in treating low quality drinking respectively. After HSF operation for 10 days, water in disaster-hit areas of northern Pakistan. 97% reduction in E. coli, total coliforms and Two villages were randomly selected for turbidity was evidenced. More than 67% of the practical demonstration of a low cost drinking respondents perceived turbidity as a prime water treatment system in earthquake affected water quality issue responsible for ill health areas. The on-site performance of HSF was consequences. It was concluded that the monitored during the operational period. The designed HSF was efficient in improving drinking data was collected on people perceptions of water quality for illiterate communities and its water quality and handling of the household success and dissemination to poor communities sand filter (HSF) through in depth focus group were prone to locally available construction discussions, questionnaire and interviews. The materials.

Department of Environmental Sciences

Development of low cost household drinking water treatment system for the earthquake affected communities

in Northern Pakistan

Qaisar Mahmood, Shams Ali Baig, Bahadar Nawab, Mustafa Nawaz Shafqat, Arshid Pervez and Bibi Saima Zeb

Car wash wastewater (CWW) contains 93% and 97% reduction in COD and turbidity. pet roleum, hydrof luoric acid, ammonium During secondary treatment CWW was further bifluoride products, paint residues, rubber, treated with waste hydrogen peroxide which phosphates, oil, grease and volatile organic resulted in further 71% and 83% reduction in compounds (VOCs). The present study dealt with COD and turbidity, respectively. Other desirable various investigations conducted for the changes were also observed in pH, total dissolved treatment of CWW. A treatment system of 5 L solids (TDS), conductivity and dissolved oxygen capacity was designed in the laboratory. Due to contents. It was concluded that designed system high load of oil and grease, CWW was aerated could be effectively used to treat carwash and scum was removed. Alum was used as wastewater that could be reused in the same coagulant in primary treatment which resulted station.

Chemical oxidation of carwash industry wastewater as an effort to decrease water pollution

Zulfiqar Ahmad Bhatti, Qaisar Mahmood, Iftikhar Ahmad Raja and Amir Haider Malik

Dilemmas l ike wa ter shortage, ra pid H2O2/UV treatment was applied (using 2.5 mL/L industrialization, growing human population and of 40% waste H2O2 and 35% fresh H2O2 related issues have seriously affected human separately). Organic and inorganic pollutants, health and environmental sustainability. For contributing towards chemical oxygen demand conservation and sustainable use of our water (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), resources, innovative methods for wastewater turbidity and total dissolved solids were degraded treatment are continuously being explored. by H2O2/UV. About 93% COD, 90% BOD and Advance Oxidation Processes (AOPs) show a 83% turbidity reduction occurred when 40% promising approach to meet specific objectives of waste H2O2 was used. When using fresh H2O2, municipal wastewater treatment (MWW). The 63% COD, 68% BOD and 86% turbidity reduction MWW samples were pretreated with was detected. Complete disinfection of coliform Al2(SO4)48H2O (Alum) at different doses 4, 8, bacteria occurred by using 40% H2O2/UV. The 1250 mg/L to enhance the sedimentation. The most interesting part of this research was to maximum COD removal was observed at alum compare the effectiveness of waste H2O2 with treatments in range of 2832 mg/L without fresh H2O2. Waste H2O2 generated from an increasing total dissolved solids (TDS). TDS were industrial process of disinfection was found more found to increase when the alum dose was effective in the treatment of MWW than fresh increased from 3240 mg/L. In the present study, 35% H2O2.the optimum alum dose of 30 mg/L for 3 h of sedimentation and subsequent integrated

Integrated chemical treatment of municipal wastewater using waste hydrogen peroxide and ultraviolet light

Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhatti, Qaisar Mahmood, Iftikhar Ahmad Raja and Amir Haider Malik

Enhanced nitrogen removal from pharmaceuticalwastewater using SBA-ANAMMOX process

Chong-Jian Tang, Ping Zheng, Ting-Ting Chen, Ji-Qiang Zhang,Qaisar Mahmood, Shuang Ding, Xiao-Guang Chen, Jian-Wei Chen and Da-Tian Wu

samples were analyzed by HPLC with UV microparticles with PLGA. The microparticles detector operated at 273 nm. Mean particle size with PLGA 75:25 exhibited more sustained range was 15-65 ìm for both grades of PLGA. release of drug than those of with PLGA 50:50. The encapsulation efficiency range was 60-88 % Similarly in vitro release of drug was also in various formulations. Biphasic release affected by polymer concentration. FTIR, XRD phenomenon was observed with an initial fats and DSC results showed no drug polymer release phase and subsequently a continuous c h e m i c a l i n t e r a c t i o n d u r i n g t h e and slower release thereafter. The non-solvent microencapsulation except slight modification of addition process led to formation of porous, drug particle behaviour from crystalline to spherical and discrete metoprolol tartrate amorphous behaviour.

Efficient biological nitrogen removal from with sequential biocatalyst (ANAMMOX granules) pharmaceutical wastewater has been focused addition (SBA-ANAMMOX process) was developed recently. The present study dealt with the by combining high-rate ANAMMOX reactor with treatment of colistin sulfate and kitasamycin sequentia l biocatalyst add iti on (SBA). At manufacturing wastewater through anaerobic biocatalyst addition rate of 0.025 g VSS (L ammonium oxidation (ANAMMOX). The wastewater)1 day1, the nitrogen removal rate of biotoxicity assay on luminescent bacterium the process reached up to 9.4 kg N m3 day1 in Photobacterium phosphoreum (T3 mutation) pharmaceutical wastewater treatment. The showed that the pharmaceutical wastewater effluent ammonium concentration was lower than

-1imparted severe toxicity with a relative 50 mg N L , which met the Discharge Standard of luminosity of 3.46% 0.45%. During long-term Water Pollutants for Pharmaceutical Industry in operation, the cumulative toxicity from toxic China (GB 21903-2008). The application of pollutants in wastewater resulted in the SBAANAMMOX process in refractory ammonium-performance collapse of conventional rich wastewater is promising.ANAMMOX process. A novel ANAMMOX process

2N E W S L E T T E R 48 49April - June 2011ARTICLES

SCADA: Stands for Supervisory Control and electrical signals from equipment into digital values Data Acquisition, generally refers to the control like the status- open/closed from a valve or switch, system of the industry which is a computer or the measurements like flow, pressure, current or system which controls and monitors a process. voltage. This process can be infrastructure, facility or Programmable Logic Controller (PLCs): These industrial based which is as described as below: are more versatile, configurable, economical, and

flexible field devices used to control the processes. l Industrial processes include production,

Solutions of the SCADA system many times have the refining, manufacturing, fabrication, and components of the Distributed Control System. power generation and may run in batch, Communication infrastructure: The system is continuous, discrete or repetitive modes.used to connect the Remote Terminal Units to

l The infrastructure processes can be private supervisory system. SCADA systems initially used or public, and includes water treatment and the modem connections or combinations of direct the distribution, wastewater treatment and and radio serial for meeting communication collection, electrical power distribution and requirements, even though IP and Ethernet over transmission, gas and oil pipelines, civil SONET/SDH also is often used at larger sites like defense siren systems, and the large power stations and railways.communication systems.

l Space stations, airports, ships, buildings both the private and public facilities have all SCADA Architecturesthe facility processes. These facility The evolution of SCADA system has been through 3 processes control and monitor access, generations as given below:consumption, HVAC, and energy

Monolithic: First Generation: Computing in the SCADA Subsystems: first generation was done with the help of Human-Machine Interface (HMI): The Mainframe systems. When the SCADA was apparatus which presents all the processed data developed networks did not exist. Therefore the to the human operator and through which SCADA systems were without any connectivity to processes are controlled and monitored. any other system, hence were independent To provide the SCADA systems the diagnostic systems. data, management information and trending

Distributed: Second Generation: The information information such as logistic information, between multiple stations was shared in real time detailed schematics for a certain machine or through LAN and the processing was distributed sensor, maintenance procedures and between various multiple stations. troubleshooting guides for the expert system

the HMI is linked to the SCADA system's Networked: Third Generation: The SCADA system databases. used today belong to this generation, these systems Supervisory system: The system acquires all instead of using a proprietary environment which is the required data of processes and sends all the vendor controlled use the open architecture system. control commands to the process. For distributing functionality across the WAN Remote Terminal Units (RTUs): This system instead of the LAN this system uses open protocols converts the sensor signals of the processes to and standards. By using the open system the digital data and sending this digital data to architecture the connectivity of any peripheral supervisory system. The RTU attaches to the device to the system like tape drives, printers, disk physical equipment. Often, the RTU converts all drives etc is very easy.

SCADA: Supervisory Control and Data AcquisitionBy Ikram Ullah

Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering stThis is 21 centaury, the most modern era of all Countries (567 million people) is less than the times, where the modern man has progressed wealth of the world's 7 richest people at its top but at the same time he has been combined.involved in threatening the world's natural l About one billion people entered the 21st outfits as well as destruction to humanity century not able to read a book or sign their through significant ways. The world is facing names.both environmental problems as well as various l Less than one per cent of what the world spent disputes among different nations. As far as the every year on weapons was needed to put environmental problems are concerned they are every child into school by the year 2000 and really alarming to us and are more precarious yet it didn't happen.than internal disputes. Environmental hazards l About 1 billion children live in poverty. 640 in form of pollution is escalating day by day million live without adequate shelter, 400 resulting in recurrent and relentless heat waves million have no access to safe water, 270 that lead to amplify in heat related infirmity. million have no access to health services. 10.6 High temperature increase melting of mass million died in 2003 before they reached the glaciers, add to ocean heat content and cause age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).ocean water to expand. Mostly as a result of these effects, large-scale sea level has risen 6 to Since the 9/11 attacks the conflicts between 12 inches over the past 120 years. Muslims and non-Muslims have risen up to the

peak. This is in fact the religious war because the In my point of view the world is now alienated west get frightened by the fact that Islam is the into two categories. The first is the superpowers second largest religion in the world. They declare and the third world countries and the second is Muslims as terrorists, the fanatic and are the Muslims and non-Muslim countries. In continuously threatening them without any solid today's world, survival of the fittest theme is reason. They have captured their nuke and oil followed both nationally and internationally. We resources. Notwithstanding many agreements are breathing in a society where superpowers among various nations, the provision of different definitely want to suppress the weaker ones weapons are moving ahead resulting in through all possible means. The superpowers proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical try to capture the resources of the third world weapons, terrorism, mass migration, continuing countries which are actually the sign of arms flow and angry competition is moving economy thrashing. Their polices are such that towards third world war. the economy of third world countries is continuously decreasing and as a result their Future prospects are very bleak. The promising economy is on the boost. The free trade policy is socio-economic and political contour do not just devoted to all big giants. This has increased stimulate any hope for enhancing international the poverty and survival of the poor becomes cooperation for peace and prosperity, for the rule nearly impossible. of law and justice, for combating poverty and

social evils, or for pursuing the path of moderation Some very alarming facts (World Bank arid mutual accommodation. The world seems to development indicators) today are: be heading towards dreadful predicament that

bears no humanity. l About half of the world lives below $2 per

day.l The GDP of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor

WE ARE HEADING TOWARDS DESTRUCTION

By Muhammad JunaidLecturer, Department of Computer Science

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Hazrat Umar (R.A.) belonged to " BanuAdi" the tribe of

Quraish . In the 8th generation, his lineage joined with

the Holy Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H). Abu Hafs was “you must not ride on the

his patronymic name and "al-Farouq" his title given by horseback, nor eat white bread, nor wear fine

the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H). He was born in 583 A.C, clothes nor set up a door between you and the

about forty years before the Migration to Madina. In people.” his youth he was a famous wrestler and orator, and

was an expert in horse riding and a spirited person. He

was one among the few people in Makkah who knew

reading and writing before Islam. His main occupation

was business.All the commanders, governors, citizens including the

Character Caliph himself were equal before law. On a number of Hazrat Umar (R.A.) had great love for Allah and the occasions, he appeared personally to defend himself Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H). He participated in almost all in the public court of justice just like a the Ghazwaat: Badr, Uhad, Ahzab, Khaibar, Hunain commonman.Every citizen could have a right to etc. In the expedition to "Tabuk" he gave half of his enquire about him and he was the responsible one to wealth in the path of Allah. He was next to Hazrat Abu answer to his people.Bakr (R.A.) to sacrifice his belongings for the cause of Allah.

After the death of the Holy Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H) people of Medina had assembled to select the First Caliph Hazrat Umar (R.A) was the first person to pledge (Bai'at) at the hand of Hadrat Abu Bakr(R.A.), and then helped him throughout the duration of his rule.

After the death of the Hazrat Abu Bakar (R.A) HazratUmar was nominated the second caliph, at that time his age was 50 years. His empire was extended He was such a great conqueror and administrator not over Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. He only for the Muslims that even pagans also admitted was not only the conqueror but also a great itadministrator, statesman and policy maker. He established a number of political, social and administrative institutions which were exemplary not only for his era but also for all upcoming ages.

Government and rules of GovernmentHe was very careful in the selection of his commanders and governors. His choice was not determined by family relation and tribal affiliation or by the social position like the age of ignorance, rather he appointed them on their merit, ability and devotion to the welfare of the Muslims and all human beings. He kept a strict watch over his officers and instructed them

governor, he was immediately called to account and the unlawful property was confiscated by the state. At the time of appointment, a governor was required to make the pledge:

He also established a special office for the investigation of complaints against the governors. The department was under the charge of Muhammad bin Maslamah Ansari.

He was the first Muslim ruler who established public treasury, courts of justice, appointed judges, set up an army department and assigned regular salaries to the men in the armed forces.

He separated the judiciary from the executive. Judges were appointed for only the administration of justice. They were chosen for their integrity and learning in Islamic law. High salaries were fixed for them and they were not allowed to engage in trade.

to declare He was assassinated by a Persian free slave, Abu Lulu thei r assets at the time of appo intment. Fairoz, and embraced shahadat on first of Muharram, If an unusual increase was reported in the assets of a 24 Hijri.

. When Gandhi was asked to explain his idea of good government he said it would be inspired by the governments established by Hazrat Abu Bakr and Hazrat Umar. About Imam Husain he said, “My faith is that the progress of Islam does not depend on the use of the sword by its believers, but the result of the supreme sacrifice of Hussain, the great saint. In saying so, he was not supporting blind devotion to each and every act of these illustrious Muslim leaders but also to their historical roles as champions of good government and justice.

Death

ARTICLES

A great administrator

By Asmat Shaheen

Lecturer, Department of Humanities

Early Life

Department of Electrical Engineering

Qualification: PhD, Austria

Research Interests: Optical Networks and Optical burst switched systems, Flow Transfer Mode, 4G Networks (LTE and LTE-Advanced), Wireless and sensor networks, Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) and Network on-chip optical interconnects.

Sohail-us-Zaman

Designation: Assistant ProfessorQualification: MS, Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USAResearch Interests: Embedded Systems, communication

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Designation: LecturerQualification: MS, G.I.K.I.Research Interests: Rf MEMS, Sensors and Actuators, Bio MEMS and Micro Electronics.

Designation: LecturerQualification: MS, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Research Interests: Mobile Communications, Cognitive Radios

WHO IS NEW?

Dr. Khurram Aziz

Designation: Assistant Professor

Abid Iqbal

Ahmed Fayyaz

Syed Aizaz Ali Shah

Designation: LecturerQualification: M.Sc., England Research Interests: Biomedical Signal Processing, Cooperative Communication

N E W S L E T T E R January - March 201152 31WHO IS NEW

Saqib Ali Khan

Designation: LecturerQualification: M.Sc., SwedenResearch Interests: Electronic System Desgin

Pir Shah Gul Ahmed

Designation: LecturerQualification: M. Sc., Southampton University, UKResearch Interests: Channel Coding, Block Coding, Turbo Coding, Iterative Decoding, Variable Length Coding, Data Encryption and Compression.

Dr. Tariq Mahmood

Designation: Assistant ProfessorQualification: PhD, University of Southampton, U.KResearch Interests: Bio-organic chemistry, Supramolecular chemistry, Flourescent dyes, Natural product chemistry


On June 03, 2011, the sub Office of Development strong links with its alumni in particular and (OOD) CIIT started working at COMSATS Institute Corporate Entities/NGOs in general to generate a of Information Technology, Abbottabad. Mr. steady income stream to hedge against the Gh ia s- ud -D in Sh ah , A ss is ta nt Pr of es so r, volatility of available funds in an uncertain Department of Management Sciences, has been economic environment. appointed as the Head of OOD. The prime In this connection, OOD is involved in planning and objective of the office is to build a substantial asset execution of different events like Workshops, base to ensure the support provided to the Alumni Reunion and Seminars. The Office of talented and deserving students through CIIT Development is committed to make CIIT self Endowment Fund Scholarship, which covers the sustainab le by provid ing greater fin anc ial students' entire fee while being enrolled at CIIT. autonomy.The Office of Development aims at developing

Constitution of Sub-Office of Office of Development at CIIT Abbottabad

Mr. Naeem Maroof

Designation: LecturerQualification: MS, University of Nottingham, UKResearch Interests: Integrated Circuits for Digital/Wireless CommunicationsDSP / FPGA for Communication Systems

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Vol 6 Issue 2 Vol 6 Issue 2.pdf · 09, 2011. Dr. Zahid Shah, Head of Humanities Department Assistant Professor Department faculty and students of CIIT Col. (Retd.) Ikram Ullah Khan