Volume - 4

Issue - 3
ISSN# 2308-5029

RUBGC International Conference

BU Career Expo

Sports Gala 2015

www.bahria.edu.pk

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Contents
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Editors Note
COVER STORY

Dear Readers,
Welcome to a new issue of 'Bugle'

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HEADQUARTERS

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ISLAMABAD CAMPUS

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LAHORE CAMPUS

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KARACHI CAMPUS

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NATIONAL CENTRE FOR

MARITIME POLICY RESEARCH

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MEDICAL &
DENTAL COLLEGE

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In this edition, we bring to limelight a

two days International Conference held at
Bahria University Islamabad on the Role of
Universities in Building Global Citizens.
Bahria University holds a strong
conviction towards being recognized
internationally. For this, the institution
believes in developing Strategic International
Partnerships. These collaborations are expected
to prove benecial for prospective wider
expansion and growth. An ongoing practice here
is to invite foreign delegates, synergize with
them and conduct learning sessions.
We hope you will have a good time
reading this issue. For suggestions and
feedback please write to us on
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Role of Universities in Building Global Citizens:

Two Days International Conference

at Bahria University

Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Rector BU and Pro-Rector BU

along with the conference speakers and reps of Bahria University

Commission, Dr Mukhtar Ahmad

graced the inaugural session of the
conference as Chief Guest. While
speaking to the audience, he said that
there should be no doubt that youth
are the future of Pakistan, a modern
progressive Pakistan and free of prejudice. If you absorb these values, you
will also become
the future of
world as these
are global values. He also said
that it is the time
to empower students so they can
realize their own
potential and
can contribute in
a better way.
Rector BU presenting souvenir to the Federal Minister Planning and Development

Bahria University Islamabad

held a two days International
Conference on `Role of Universities in
Building Global Citizens (RUBGC) on
22 & 23 April, 2015. The Conference
provided a platform for academicians,
researchers, practitioners and students to learn and share knowledge. It

covered different themes, which

Included: challenges and opportunities of a globalized curriculum, creating global values free of fear and prejudice, preparing students for the
global workplace and technology.
Chairman Higher Education

In his opening speech Pro-Rector BU, Rear

Admiral (Retd) Saleem Akhtar HI (M)
briefed the audience about objective of
the conference. He said that the
Conference aimed at popularizing the
idea of global citizenship and providing a catalyst for transition to the era

of nationalism to the idea of internationalism. This can help students to

actively help shape their lives and the
environment they live in.
Federal Minister of Planning and
Development, Planning Commission
of Pakistan, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal was the
Chief Guest on the closing day. The
key note speakers of the conference,
H.E. Mr Peter Heyward, Australian
High Commissioner-Islamabad, Dr
David Rowland, Valparaiso
University-USA, Mr Douglas Meikle,
York St. John University-UK, Dr
Peter Woods, Director International,
Grifth University-AUS, Dr Kathleen
Lilley, School of Public HealthGrifth, Professor Michelle Barker,
Grifth University-AUS, shed light
on the challenges being confronted by
educational institutions for incorporating a globalized curriculum.
The two-day constructive
Conference received well-deserved
gratitude from all the attendees.

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Career Expo' 2015

Bahria University Islamabad
Campus (BUIC) organized Career
Expo'15 on 4th March 2015. It
brought together job seekers and
employers and also facilitated in guiding the candidates about their career
path and innovative job hunt tactics.

and Investments, Askari Bank,

Haidri Beverages PVT Limited,
Synergy Advertising, Channel 7,
Bahria Town, PPAF, SNL Financial,
Wi-Tribe, PTCL and many other
graced the event with their presence.

the organizations to directly interact

with prospective candidates and
recruit the required talent without
going through hassle of conventional
hiring practices. BU consistently
plans such productive events.

Job Fair is a cost-effective way for

On this occasion,
Human Resources experts
from renowned organizations updated on HR
demands, entry requirement and career prospects.
Pro-Rector BU, Rear
Admiral (Retd) Saleem
Akhtar HI (M) inaugurated the event. Various
well known organizations
including Telenor
Pakistan, Mari Petroleum,
Nayatel, Beaconhouse
School, MCB AH Savings

Pro-Rector BU, Rear Admiral (Retd) Saleem Akhtar HI (M)

inaugurated the CAREER EXPO' 2015

Guest Lecture on
Improving Relevance and Quality of Undergraduate Education
Bahria University has a persistent focus on quality improvement. It
takes well-timed initiatives to maintain standards by conducting
Workshops, Seminars and Guest
Lectures on regular basis. As a capacity building exercise, Quality

Enhancement Cell invited Brig (Retd)

Engr. Salim Ahmed Khan, Director
Quality Enhancement, Riphah
International University to deliver a
lecture on Improving Relevance and
Quality of Undergraduate Education
In his lecture, He briefed the audience

View of guest lecture led by Brig (Retd) Engr. Salim Ahmed Khan

about the mechanism and the good

practices through case studies. He
also stated the signicant role of different stakeholders including Faculty
and Students to improve the quality
of education. Pro-Rector BU, Rear
Admiral (Retd) Saleem Akhtar HI
(M), Directors, Research Scholars &
Faculty Members attended this productive lecture.
In addition, Brig (Retd) Engr.
Salim Ahmed Khan conducted a
workshop on preparation of SelfAssessment Reports. During this session, He explained the methodology
of writing a comprehensive SelfAssessment Report (SAR) to the
Program Team Members Islamabad
Campus.

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Prize Distribution Ceremony of

National Mobile Apps Competition
(NMAC-2015)

at BUIC

Prize Distribution Ceremony of National Mobile Apps Competition (NMAC-2015)

held on 29th April 2015 at BUIC

Bahria University held a Prize

Distribution Ceremony of National
Mobile Apps Competition (NMAC2015) on 29th April 2015 at BUIC. Innovative Apps for the Public Sector
was the theme for the competition. On
this occasion, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal,
Federal Minister, Planning,
Development & Reforms awarded the
winners of NMAC'15. Four hundred
and seventy BU students submitted
their ideas, out of which Faizan Khan
got rst prize, while Shaharyar Khan
and Syed Uzair Ahmed and Ameen
Jafri obtained second, third and

fourth position respectively.

While speaking to the audience,
Prof. Ahsan Iqbal congratulated the
winners and said that Ministry has
initiated this Competition to set-up a
strategic direction for the future. He
also stated that through technology,
innovation and entrepreneurship, we
can rise as a competitive nation.
Honourable Rector BU, in his speech,
declared to make this competition
BU's annual event by the next year,
which will be titled as Ministerial
Innovation Cup.

Key representatives of various

software houses, IT industry, academia and government department
graced the occasion with their presence.

BU Student while receiving

his prize cheque during NMAC-2015

Seminar on Signicance of Research in

Psychology
Department of Professional
Psychology, Bahria University
Islamabad arranged a seminar on
Signicance of Research in
Psychology on 4 March 2015 at the
university premises. Ms Mahnazir
Riaz (Retd) Dean of Social Science,

Shaheed Benazir Women University

was the guest speaker of the session.
While speaking on the occasion, she
highlighted the importance of
research in Clinical Psychology for the
students of MS & PhD level. She also
shed light on the psychometrics prop-

erties and its implication in the

research. At the end of the seminar,
Dr Uzma Masroor, HOD Professional
Psychology presented the souvenir to
the worthy guest speaker.

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Bahria University

Best Researcher Awards'14

In this technological era, academic Institutes producing cutting-edge research achievements are growing faster than
others. Bahria University also comprehends the need for research and commends its faculty and student's research
endeavors through its Awards conferring policy. All BU constituent units held the award distribution ceremonies at their
premises separately.
During these events, Honorable Rector BU encouraged the following achievers.

Dr Rizwana Bashir receiving her award

Dr Z. F Zadeh receiving award

on behave of Ms Zaynah Khan

Dr Farooq-e-Azam Cheema
receiving his award

Dr Shehzad Khalid receiving his award

Dr Daud Mirza receiving his award

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Foreign Delegates Visit

Bahria University
her visit, she met
the Honourable
Rector BU and
discussed the
opportunities of
academic collaboration among
both the institutions. In addition, she delivered a lecture on
"Being more
employable at
h o m e a n d
Prof Shabbar Jaffery, Portsmouth University, UK
abroad" to the
while delivering lecture
students. She
also had another
Regional Director -Asia & Mr Tanveer
informative session
Shaheed, Senior Country Managerwith the HODs and
Asia. During the meeting with
faculty members
Honourable Rector BU, they also
BULC, where she
talked about probable cooperation in
discussed the cogniacademic activities as well as conduct
tive learning behavof joint seminars/conferences. The delior of the students.
egation also conducted a professional
workshop on Teaching and
In the same way, a
Assessment Method.
delegation from
M a c q u a r i e
Univers
i t y ,
Australi
a visited
Ms Carole Still speaking on B U o n
Being more employable at home and abroad
14 April
2015.
Personal Research Journey. BU
Faculty members and students of
The delegation comManagement Sciences enthusiastiprised three members
cally attended this lecture.
including Dr Rahat
Munir, Deputy Head of
Similarly, Ms Carole Still Head of
Department of
Professional Development
Accounting and
Entrepreneurship, Enterprise &
Corporate Governance,
Skills at Coventry University, UK visDr Rahat Munir guiding about Teaching and
Mr Matt Monkhouse,
ited BU on 30 March, 2015. During
Assessment Method during his workshop
Bahria University promotes academic alliances with the International
Universities and realizes its importance to enhance quality of education.
It also facilitates learning from
diverse culture. Keeping in view the
implications, BU invites various foreign delegations very often. Prof
Shabbar Jaffery, from Portsmouth
University, UK, visited Bahria
University Islamabad on 12 March
2015. He is a senior faculty member of
Economics in the Business School of
Portsmouth University. During his
visit, Prof Jaffery delivered a lecture
on "Developing a Management Tool to
Assist Manpower Planners: A

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Moreover, some speakers of

International Conference held at BU
during 22-23 April, 2015 also conducted educational workshops after
attending the Conference.
Dr Peter
Woods Director
International
G r i f t h
University,
Australia led a
session on "How
to do Business
with China".
Dr David
R o w l a n d ,
Executive
D i r e c t o r ,
Valparaiso
University, USA
guided the
Psychology students of BU on
Gender Identity

Mr Peter Woods,
Director International
Grifth University, Australia

Mr David Rowland,
Executive Director,
Valparaiso University, USA

Disorders and Treatment.

Furthermore before his departure, he
also interacted with the BU faculty
and senior management and discussed the potential collaborative
actions between BU and Valparaiso
University.
Dr Nadia
Tahir HoD,
Management
Sciences BUIC
went for a Joint
Research Project
with York St.
John University, Dr Nadia Tahir,
HoD Management Sciences
UK for a week, BUIC
starting from 24
March to 1 April 2015. During her
visit, different Ethnographic techniques were used to explore how to
improve the teaching pedagogy.
Various brain storming sessions were
held to discuss and improve the teaching practices adopted by different
Higher Education Institutes around

Seminar on Study Opportunities in

BU organized an enlightening session on study opportunities in Germany for its
students on 3 March, 2015.
The session was mainly tar-

the world.
As part of follow-up to her
research stay in
UK, Mr Douglas
Meikle, Senior
Lecturer York St.
John University,
UK visited
B a h r i a
U n i v e r s i t y . Mr Douglas Meikle,
Lecturer
Throughout his Senior
York St. John University, UK
visit, Mr Douglas
observed the teaching practices of
Management Science at BU to understand the teaching pedagogies in
Pakistani Universities through
ethnographic research. He also delivered a lecture on How to calculate
prots to the BU students.

Germany

geted to the nal year students of undergraduate, postgraduate programs who seek
their further studies in
Germany. Mr Usama

Shoukat, Education consultant led the session on the

basis of his 10 years experience of education in
Germany.

PM Youth Laptop
Distribution at BU
BUIC arranged the Distribution Ceremony of
Prime Minister's Laptop Scheme Phase II in collaboration with Higher Education Commission on 15th
April 2015. Five hundred and forty three students
have received Laptops and Evo devices up till now.
Mr Tariq Fazal Choudhary, MNA (NA) graced
the ceremony as the Chief Guest. While addressing
the students he said that now it is their responsibility to use these assets for useful purpose and help
Pakistan to prosper dynamically.

Mr Tariq Fazal Choudhary, MNA (NA) graced the

PM Youth Laptop Distribution Ceremony as Chief Guest

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Rector BU

visits New Zealand

Honorable Rector, Vice Admiral

(Retd) Tanveer Faiz HI (M), represented Bahria University in New
Zealand in March 2015. He visited
under the HEC organized learning

visit in collaboration with Education

New Zealand in which, Vice
Chancellors/Rectors of selected educational institutes of Pakistan were
invited. The purpose of this visit was

to explore the prospects of academic

alliance with the Universities of New
Zealand.

HR Development Endeavours

Registrar BU, Director Human Resource, Director Quality Assurance

& Public Relation Ofcer visited various foreign universities

BU takes well-timed initiatives for the development of

its HR and values learning from growing diverse
Institutions. A delegation of Bahria University visited
Yasar University, Turkey, Durham University &
University of Bedfordshire, UK for twelve days starting
from 20 March to 1 April 2015. It comprised four members
including Registrar BU, Director Human Resource,
Director Quality Assurance & Public Relation Ofcer. It
was aimed at capacity building of BU administrative staff
in order to follow the international practices to support academic functions of the Bahria University. In addition, various collaborative prospects were explored.

Development and Director Admissions visited Grifth

University & Macquarie University for nine days, 11 to 19
April 2015.

Similarly, another delegation from BU, with the same

objective including Director BUIC, Director Planning &

Director BUIC, Director Planning & Development and

Director Admissions during an academic visit

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IBA Music Olympiad

BU's renowned and very talented Rapper and Hip-Hop performer,
Syed Abdul Haseeb contributed in IBA Music Olympiad as Rap Contest
Judge. Institute of Business Administration hosted this mega event during 9 to 11 April 2015. It is considered as one of the biggest institutional
music festivals in Pakistan. More than a thousand participants from different colleges and
universities from
all over the country took part in it.
On the nal day,
on the organizers
request, Syed
Abdul Haseeb performed one of his
popular tracks
I'm a Muslim.

Earth Hour at BUIC

Bahria University Islamabad Campus (BUIC) in collaboration with WWF Pakistan observed the Earth Hour on 28th
March 2015. BU turned off all lights of the Campus from 8:00 to 9:00 pm in order to honour Earth. Through this activity,
message of save energy was promoted.
Moreover, to create awareness among the students, related posters
were afxed on the walls of the Campus. Students were also asked to write
positive messages for the society, which were later shared on social website
for mass awareness. To benet the society through any possible means,
WWF has always conducted diverse activities all over the world, this is one
of the instance.

Walk for a Cause

with Shaukat Khanum Memorial
BU always gives condence to the spirit of serving society. With the aim to help in a humanity cause, BSS 3 & LLB 3
along with LLB course coordinator, joined Shoukat Khanum Memorial Trust team on walk for cause campaign. It was carried out on 19 April 2015. Students from various other universities participated in this drive.
They went mid-way up on trail 6 on the
Margalla hills and hiked back down with great
enthusiasm. Shoukat Khanum team applauded
the students and presented gifts hampers
through lucky draw.

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BULC Hosts
National Mobile App Competition
Bahria University Lahore Campus hosted the
National Mobile App Competition Pakistan on 10 March
2015. The main theme of the competition was, Innovative
Apps for Good Governance and its purpose was to get new
ideas on how Information Technology can be used in
improving the G2G, G2C and C2C services. This being the
rst ever app competition in Pakistan organized by the

Planning Commission of Pakistan in coordination with the

private sector. Students from different universities in
Lahore participated in the form of groups and presented
their brilliant ideas and out-of-the-box working prototypes
to judges from big multinational companies like Microsoft
and Telenor.

Maximize Your
Potential
View of workshop "Maximize Your Potential" held
on 11 March 2015 at BULC

BULC believes in educating its faculty, students and

staff on a wide range of academic matters through wellplanned workshops and seminars, as a regular feature.
Such forums provide unique opportunities to the participants to thoroughly debate relevant prospects besides
resulting in enhanced mutual learning and worthwhile
actions. A recent initiative includes organization of a series
of seminars aimed at bringing industry professionals and

academicians together that would result in a wonderful

blend of academic knowledge and industry practice. The
rst seminar of the series was organized on 11 March 2015
in which Dr Mubashar Nadeem, Director Research,
University of Education was invited as Guest Speaker to
dilate on the topic Maximize your Potential. Students not
only participated in discussions but also took part in various paper exercises prepared by the worthy speaker as integral to the lecture. The session ended with a note of thanks
by the Director Campus. Certicates of participation were
also distributed among students and staff. This session
marked a wonderful start for the students to benet from
apprentice teaching and provided a forum for teachers to
update and design their courses regularly.

A Helping Hand: Phir Wohi Mohabbat

Bahria University has always been supportive in extending a helping
hand to the civil society and contributing towards community support programs. Fifteen students from BULC including 4 girls and 11 boys, participated as volunteers in coordinating a play, Phir Wohi Mohabbat that was
organized by a Lahore based NGO named, Voice Society for Special
Person. The society is an appendage to Pakistan Society for rehabilitation
for disabled (PSRD) and has taken many such initiatives in the past as well.
The play was conducted at the Alhamra Art Council on 20th March 2015
and its basic purpose was to serve as a fund-raising event for the welfare of
the disabled community. It was a proud privilege for the university to have
the worthy Director Campus, Cdre (Retd) Amjad Zaman SI (M) as the Chief
Guest of the play. The play ended with a few words by the Director Campus
and a donation of Rs. 50,000 was made by BULC in the society's name.

Director BULC, Cdre (Retd) Amjad Zaman SI (M)

graced the occasion as the Chief Guest

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Bahria University

National Conference 2015

Mr Tashfeen K Niaz, Chairman Sindh Revenue Board, DG BUKC, DG NCMPR

along with other ofcials on the occasion of BUNC -2015

Bahria University Karachi

Campus, Department of
Management Sciences organized a
two days Bahria University National
Conference (BUNC-2015). The event
took place at Karachi Campus on 16
& 17 April 2015.
Mr Tashfeen K Niaz, Chairman
Sindh Revenue Board inaugurated
the Conference as Chief Guest.
Various renowned intellectuals and
industrialist/ businessman were
invited to speak on the theme Role of
Private Sector in Socio Economic
Development of Pakistan. It was primarily aimed at highlighting the role
of private sector in the economic
wellbeing of the country, exploring its
new role and to deliberate on developing a strong alliance between academia and private sector.

In his opening speech, Mr

Tashfeen K Niaz, emphasized on educational institutions to focus more on

research and innovation in order to

meet future challenges. He also said
that private sector can play a dynamic
role in the socio economic development of Pakistan.
DG BUKC Vice Admiral (Retd)
Khalid Amin HI (M), in his speech
also emphasized to conduct research
activities at Bahria University to
facilitate academia-industry linkage.
Mr Muhammad Hanif Jakhura, Dr

Mirza Ishtiaq Baig, Mr Ateeq ur

Rehman, Mr Mehtab Chawla, Mr
Munir Kamal Juddon and Mr Zahid
Saeed presented their research
papers. A large number of participants from academia, research institutes and industries attended this
important event. On the closing day,
President Karachi Chamber of
Commerce & Industry graced the conference as Chief Guest.

Mr Tashfeen K Niaz, Chairman Sindh Revenue Board

inaugurated the BUNC-2015 as the Chief Guest

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Seminars, Workshops
and Guest Speaker Sessions at BUKC
mental Science
department of
BUKC arranged
a Symposium on
High Resolution
Seismic in offshore studies for
the students and
faculty of the
department. It
was held on 30
Mr Rehan Allahwala speaking during a session on
April 2015 at the
Power of Networking and Entrepreneur Ecosystem
campus. Mr
G h u l a m
Subhani-Geophysicist Pakistan agement Science on 18 March 2015 at
the campus Auditorium.
Mr Kamran Zahid was the
key speaker for the day.
He shared a resplendent
framework on the topic
with the BU students,
which is effective and
applicable in personal and
professional life while making critical decision making under stress. The seminar was coordinated by
Mr M. Faisal, Assistant
Professor, Mr Essa Khan
and Mr Saad Ahmed,
Faculty members of the
Department.
Symposium on High Resolution Seismic held on 30 April 2015 at BUKC

An Entrepreneurship Seminar
titled A path to success was held on
7th March, 2015. Mr. Faisal Bin
Badar, who is a qualied engineer
and an experienced professional, was
the session Trainer. He educated the
students of BUKC how to emerge as
entrepreneurs, expert engineers and
managers. While on 17 March 2015,
Mr Nabeel A. Qadeer, Project
Manager PLAN9 conducted another
session on Entrepreneurship, in
which He taught about the techniques
and procedures of opening of new venture.

In the same way, BUKC invited

Mr Rehan Allahwala on 23 April 2015
to speak on Power of Networking and
Entrepreneur Ecosystem. Mr
Allahwala is the Founder and
President of over 50 Ventures around
the world including countries like
United States, Malaysia, Singapore,
UAE and Pakistan. It was an informative session and a large number of
students eagerly attended.
Similarly, Earth & Environ-

Petroleum Ltd, Mr M
Tahir-Visiting Faculty
E&ES and Ms Maryam
Farooq-Manager
Trainee ENI Pakistan
Ltd attended as the
speakers.
Another fruitful seminar Impact of Stress on
Managerial Decisions
was organized by the
Department of Man-

Mr Kamran Zahid while receiving his souvenir

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Bahria University

Model United Nations (BUMUN) 2015

BUKC held Bahria University
Model United Nations 2015 on 13-15
March 2015. Model United Nations is
an academic simulation that aims to
provide students with a political, strategic, and economic perspective of the
world. Debates on different international issues allow students to gain an
insight into the current affairs of the
world at large. Earlier in 2012, it was
rst executed by a team of students
under the guidance of Mr Khurram
Adeel Shaikh-Faculty member of the
Management Science Department.

This year
BUMUN 15 was
led by Mr Labib
Chauhan, a student of the
Electrical
Engineering
department.
Students from
various other
educational
institutions also
participated in
the event.

DG BUKC, DG NCMPR, Director BUKC at the

inaugural ceremony of BUMUN'15

esteemed presence.
DG BUKC
Vice Admiral (R)
Khalid Amin HI
(M), DG NCMPR
Vice Admiral (R)
Asaf Humayun HI
(M) and Director
BUKC & Patron
BUMUN Captain
Mohsin Hayat
Malik TI (M)
graced the opening
session with their

The issues discussed during this

year's three day gathering includes:
Education A Fuel for Growth,
Protection and Prevention of
Genocide and Crimes against
Humanity, Strengthening Conict
Affected Communities to React to
Security Threats, Substantiating the
Political Representation of Women,
World Food Crisis, World War 3
Prevention and Contingency Plans
etc.

Walk on World Water Day

The department of Earth
and Environmental Science
held a Walk on World Water
Day on 24 March 2015, from
Bahria University Karachi
Campus to Aga Khan Hospital.
The main aim of this walk was
to familiarize everyone about
the water & its sustainable
development. This was attended
by faculty members, students,
administrative staff and the representatives of oil industry.

World water day is the basically

an annual wakeup call to the
world. The day draws the attention of the common public
towards the depletion of this
vital resource. Department of
Earth and Environmental
Science BUKC takes well timed
initiatives to create awareness
on such imperative issues. This
walk is one of such examples.
Reps of Department of Earth and Environmental Science
BUKC during a walk on World Water Day

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Bahria Finance Olympiad

BFO 2015 held at BUKC on 25 April 2015

Bahria Finance
Olympiad (BFO) is an innovative educational step by
Bahria University Karachi
Campus to provide students with a nancial perspective of the market.
Mock set up of the Stock
Exchange gave students
better insight about purchasing and selling of
stocks.

Earlier, this initiative

was started with the intention to develop a platform for students where they can experience real market concept. This year BFO'15 under the presidency of Jawad Ahmed
Janjua, a student of MBA was held on 25
April 2015 at the Campus. Sixty teams,
each having 5-6 members participated in
the event.
Among all the teams, Clashers were
announced as the overall winner of the
event. In his closing remarks, Commodore
Mohsin Hayat Malik TI (M), Director
BUKC, appreciated all the students and
distributed prizes among the winners.

Director BUKC distributing shields to the winners of BFO'15

Book Selection Event

BUKC Library
Section held a two day mini
book fair titled Book
Selection Event on 18 & 19
March at the campus. Main
purpose of this event was to
have comprehensive recommendations from the
worthy faculty members
and HoDs for the inclusion
of books in the library,
which are of immense
value for the students. It
was indeed an excellent
technique for improving the collection of books in BUKC Library. All HoDs, faculty members and staff devotedly visited during the fair and submitted their valuable proposal.

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Continuing Professional Development

Workshop
BUKC in collaboration with
Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
Headquarters, Islamabad organized a
three day interactive continuing professional development workshop on
Transaction Pattern (TP) and
Universal Data Models (UDM)
Ultimate Business Application
Design Solution" from 13 to15 March,

2015 at the Campus. It was meant to

contribute towards Continuous
Program Development (CPD) activities under PEC and training about
how to design enterprise application
with scalability. Various engineers
registered with PEC and BU students
from C&SE attended the workshop.
Similarly, an In-House faculty devel-

opment session on Turnitin was

held on 22 April 2015 at BUKC, which
was facilitated by Syed Rizwan Ali.
He is a certied Master Trainer (MTFPDP) from Department of Learning
Innovation, Higher Education
Commission (HEC) Islamabad.

Corporate Visits By BUKC

To demonstrate students the workplace
environment and working operations,
BUKC arranges various academic visits
time to time. Under this domain, in the
month of March and April students of electrical engineering accompanied with their
supervisor, visited Pakistan Cables,
GATRON, Worldcall Pvt (Ltd) and Matyari
Sugar Mills.

Students of Electrical Engineering BUKC during the academic corporate visit

Ten Pearls Developers Day 2015

Students of Computer Science, BUKC participated in
10 Pearls Developers Day 2015, hosted by FASTNUCES, Karachi on 17 March 2015. Rabia Irshad, BS
student obtained third position in the competition titled
10 Minutes of Tech. She condently presented her innovative idea of Automatic Voting System within 10 min-

Basant 2015
BUKC celebrated a traditional event Basant
2015 on 7 March at the Campus. Renowned Artist,
Falak Shabbir, along with various bands performed on
the day.

utes and impressed the audience and juries. Various universities from Karachi participated in this competition.
Moreover, Faiza Kanwal, another BS student, competed
in one-to-one IQ quiz competition held under the banner
of Wavetech and also won prize.

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NATIONAL CENTRE FOR MARITIME POLICY RESEARCH

Maritime Discourse on

Future of Gwadar Port

Mr Zeng Qingsong speaking about The Future of Gwadar during Martime Discourse held by NCMPR

National Centre for Maritime

Policy Research (NCMPR) organized
a Maritime Discourse on the topic
The Future of Gwadar at Bahria
University on 20th March, 2015. The
core objective to conduct this discourse was to shed light on the signicance of Gwadar Port and the role it
can play to boost the economy of
Pakistan in future. Gwadar port
offers multi-dimensional advantages
and will inuence the geo-strategic
and economic environment in the
region.
The CEO of China Overseas Port
Holding Company Mr. Zeng Qingsong
was the keynote speaker. He highlighted the signicance of the Gwadar
Port in the future. He said that
Gwadar is strategically located in
proximity of major shipping routes
emanating from Gulf. Gwadar and
Pakistan China Economic Corridor
are important for both China and
Pakistan.
In the beginning of discourse,
Director NCMPR Capt. Tariq Masood

gave a comprehensive presentation

and briefed the hinterland connectivity of Gwadar Port.
Moreover, DG NCMPR Vice Admiral
(Retd) Asaf Humayun HI (M), in his
closing remarks said that Gwadar is
inching towards its development at a
slow pace whereas the whole nation
desired to see the
progress and prosperity at a much
faster pace. Two
things will actually
determine that
how fast Gwadar
can progress, one
is security and the
other is connectivity.
In addition,
question and
answer session
was planned after
the speech of Mr.
Zeng, to answer
the queries of the
participants.

Various stakeholders from maritime

sector attended this rich session.
NCMPR provides a valuable platform for discussing maritime issues
being faced by Pakistan. Maritime
Discourse is a series of lectures, organized by NCMPR.

DG NCMPR presenting souvenir to the discourse speaker

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Development of HR at NCMPR
NCMPR facilitates the development of its Human Resource as well.
For this deliberated purpose, NCMPR
nominated Ms Sadia Sherazi,
Research Associate, to attend a ve
days Training course titled Training
Techniques for Trainers. The training was held during 6-10 April, 2015
at Pakistan Institute of Management.
The Director NCMPR, Captain (R)
Tariq Masood, being the visiting
Faculty of NCMPR also attended this
course.
Correspondingly with the same
objective, Ms Tabassum Naz, Staff
ofcer (Publication) and Ms Meharun-nisa, Research Assistant, NCMPR

have also been given an opportunity

to enhance their capacity in the maritime domain through a certication
course on Fundamentals of Maritime

Sector. Duration of this course is

four months, which is expected to be
completed in July 2015.

Director NCMPR and Research Associate NCMPR

along with other participants of the training course

NCMPR Holds Short Capacity Building Courses

Short courses are a great way to ll
the gaps in once knowledge and give a
competitive edge. These provide long
term benets and advance competencies of individuals. NCMPR holds
such sessions from time to time. A
short course on Incoterms 2010 was
held at NCMPR on 18 April 2015. It
was a complimentary capacity building session, sponsored by Pakistan
International Freight Forwarding
association (PIFFA). More than hundred participants from industry and

View of short course "Incoterms 2010"

academia attended the session.

Similarly, two short
courses on Business
Communication and Presentation Skills were organized at the NCMPR on 25
April 2015. Participants
from freight forwarding
industry attended the sessions.
View of short course
"Business Communication and Presentation Skills"

MEDICAL & DENTAL COLLEGE

Welcome Party 2015

The dental section of Bahria
University Medical and Dental
College (BUM&DC), warmly welcomed the new DG BUM&DC Vice
Admiral (Retd) Tehseenullah Khan
HI (M), Principal dental section Prof.
Dr Zubair Ahmed Abbasi and the new
intakes to the BDS family, third batch
of BDS (2015-2018) on 11 April 2015.
On this occasion, one of the senior students of the college briefed to the new
comers about the establishment of
BUM&DC. Some entertaining performances and segments were also
planned. In addition, Dr Kulsoom
Fatima Rizvi, Vice Principal and HoD
Community Dentistry gave a formal
welcome speech and presented souveBUM&DC celebrated
Pakistan Day on 23rd March 2015

nirs to the honorable Chief Guests as

a token of gratitude from the Dental
faculty. The memorable event was con-

cluded with the cake cutting ceremony and group photograph.

BUM&DC Welcome Party 2015 was held on 11 April 2015

BUM&DC

Celebrates
To memorialize
Lahore Resolution of
1940, Pakistan Day is celebrated all over the country
on 23rd March every year.
BUM&DC also showed its
devotion and commemorated Pakistan Resolution
Day at the campus premises. Flag hoisting ceremony on the enticing beat
of national anthem was

Pakistan Day

held. A series of heartwarming and morale

boosting speeches were
presented by the students
in the campus auditorium.
Similarly, national songs
and slogans of Pakistan
Zindabad roused the spirit
of patriotism in the audience. Director General
Vice Admiral (Retd)
Tehseenullah Khan HI

(M), Principal Medical

Section and Dean of
Health Sciences Brig
(Retd) Shaheen Moin and
Principal Dental Section
Dr Zubair Abbasi, graced
the occasion with their
esteemed presence. The
ceremony ended with the
prayers for peace and prosperity of the country.

Presentation on

A Beautiful Smile is Easy and Affordable

Dr Kulsoom Fatima
Rizvi, Head of the
Department Community
Dentistry and Vice
Principal Dental Section,
BUM&DC, attended a
seminar on World Oral
Health Day as guest
speaker. It was organized

by Baqai Dental College

on 20th March, 2015. In
her presentation on 'A
beautiful smile is easy
and affordable', she
emphasized the need of
preventive measures to
maintain the health of
oral tissues and combat

the exponential rise in

oral diseases. At the end
of the seminar, she was
honored with a shield as a
memento by Prof. Dr F.U
Baqai, Chancellor Baqai
Medical University.
Dr Kulsoom Fatima Rizvi receiving her souvenir

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MEDICAL & DENTAL COLLEGE

World Oral Health Day

World Oral Health Day (WOHD)
is celebrated every year on the 20th
March. It is an international day to
celebrate the benets of a healthy
mouth and to promote awareness of
the issues around oral health and the
importance of looking after oral
hygiene. This year the theme for

WOHD was 'Smile for life'.

BUM&DC has always played a prominent role in facilitating patients with
oral health care needs. The dental section held 2nd celebration of WOHD on
19 & 20 March 2015, focusing on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of
oral diseases, prevalent in our community to reinforce the importance of
oral healthcare. The campaign
involved participation from faculty

members, students and general public in collaboration with Shield

Corporation. The activities included,
a two-day free dental checkup at the
dental OPD which engaged faculty
from every department and attracted
a good number of patients. Patients
were screened for caries, periodontal
disease,
tooth loss
and other
oral conditions along
with the provision of free
counseling
and treatm e n t .
Moreover,
oral hygiene
kits were
distributed
among the
patients.
In addition, a seminar was also
held and attended by entire faculty
members and students. It was hosted
by Dr Nida Siddique, Incharge Oral
Biology. Dr Syed Faizan, Lecturer in
Oral Surgery presented the opening
address, which was followed by presentations on 'Prevention of Oral
Diseases' by Dr Kulsoom Fatima Vice

View of free dental checkup activity at BUM&DC

Principal and HoD Community

Dentistry, 'Oral Conditions in Life of a
Woman' by Dr. Saifullah Khan,
Senior Registrar Oral medicine in
Ziauddin Dental Hospital and 'Smile
for Life' by Saa Anwar, student of
third year BDS.
The program ended with the presidential address of Prof. Dr Zubair
Abbasi, Principal Dental Section and
HoD Oral Surgery and presentation
of shields to the key speakers by
Director General Vice Admiral (Retd)
Tehseenullaah Khan.

Vice Admiral (Retd) Tehseenullaah Khan, DG BUM&DC

presenting souvenir to the seminar speaker

Dental Student Wins the Best Delegate Award

A delegation of three students from second year BDS, BUM&DC including Hafsa
Saeed, Anika Akram and Ebrahim Riaz participated in the three-day conference of
BUMUN 2015 held at BUKC on 13-15
March 2015. There were six committees and
members of every committee were assigned
countries or personalities, whom they had
to represent. Ebrahim Riaz won the best delA delegation of BUM&DC students during BUMUN 2015
egate award. His committee was 'United
Nation's Women' and the country assigned to him was Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

IPP Conducts Seminars and Workshops

Institute of
Professional Psychology
(IPP) also comprehends
the need for developing
its faculty and students
through trainings and
workshops based on
updated knowledge.
Keeping in view the
objective, it organizes
seminars, workshops
and also sends its faculty
to attend such outdoor
events.
Mr Khurram Adil
Sheikh was invited at the
IPP on 2 March 2015 to
conduct a workshop on Zotero. It is a
reference management software, to
manage bibliographic data and
related research materials (such as
PDF les). Dr Zainab Hussain
Bhutto, Dr Tahira Yousuf, Dr Kiran
Bashir Ahmad, Ms Batool Fatima,
MsNaima Fatima Shariff and MS
Students attended this useful workshop.
On 18 March 2015 a seminar on
nonverbal communication The
Unspoken was organized at IPP,
which was coordinated by Ms Hira
Syed. Presentations
regarding impact, effectiveness and improvements of nonverbal communication in our daily
lives, handshakes, formal presentations, power
posing and lecture delivery were presented during the session. Director
General BUKC Vice
Admiral (Retd) Khalid
Amin HI (M) honored the
occasion as the chief
guest. Students from IPP
also presented an act on
'Unseen Emotions' &'A
Cookie Jar' based on mar-

View of act 'Unseen Emotions' &'A Cookie Jar'

by IPP Students

ital counseling & a child's expressions.

In the same way, Mr Zulqarnain
Asghar was invited at IPP to conduct
a guest speaker session on Interview
skills on 7 March 2015. During the
two hours interactive session, students learnt about the basic interview
skills for psychologists. The speaker
utilized role plays to familiarize students with a variety of therapeutic situations. The session was coordinated
by Ms. Naima Fatima Shariff.

and Ms Naima Fatima

Shariff, faculty member,
conducted a workshop on
Stress Management for
deployed naval ofcers
and sailors at Sujawal on
20 April 2015. It was
aimed at helping the participants to cope up with
the stressors, which arise
as a result of living an
isolated life in deployment areas. The workshop assisted the participants to utilize their
stress positively to
enhance their performance.

Similarly, Dr Zainab F. Zadeh

also conducted a workshop on 'Play
Therapy for Trauma Survivors' on
April 28th, 2015 at Centre for Clinical
Psychology, University of the Punjab,
Lahore. The play therapy is a
psychotherapeutic technique used
with children as well as adults to overcome trauma and stress and to
explore the hidden feelings and emotions.

The capacity building of UNAIDS

Project team on counseling for HIV
/AIDS was conducted
from 27 to 29 April 2015
at Bahria University
Lahore Campus. For this
purpose, Ms Batool
Fatima developed the
Training Manual while
the training execution
was led by Dr Zainab
Zadeh and Dr Uzma
Masroor and Ms Batool
Fatima. It was well
attended by forty ve
participants from
UNAIDS partner organizations of Punjab and
Dr Zainab F. Zadeh during a training session
KPK.

Dr Zainab F. Zadeh, Director IPP

on Counseling for HIV /AIDS

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INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

14th International
Conference of Psychology

Director IPP Attends

Director Institute of
Professional Psychology, Dr
Zainab F. Zadeh attended the
14th International Conference of
Psychology held from 19 to 21
March, 2015 at the Punjab
University, Lahore. The conference was organized by Pakistan
Psychological Association (PPA)

and Dr Zadeh was invited as the

session chair.
Paper by Dr Kiran Bashir
Ahmad titled 'Understanding the
perception of social support in adolescents with and without disabilities' was also presented as a poster
in the same conference.

Dr Zainab F Zadeh while receiving her souvenir

IPP Participates in

Career Expo
Ms Naima Fatima Shariff and
Basit Bhojani student of BS, represented IPP and the eld of psychology at the career expo organized by the Hussaini Foundation

on 5 April 2015. The department's

participation in this event was
instrumental in spreading awareness of this eld and in guiding
young students.

Academic Visits to

Various Institutes
IPP organizes various academics visits for the students to
make them aware with the on
ground realities along with the traditional class room based knowledge. In the month of March and
April, 2015, the BS students
accompanied with the Heads from
IPP and the course instructor visited various institutions and centers which include Sir Cowasjee
Institute of Psychiatry

Hyderabad, Bilqees Edhi

Psychiatric Centre, Karawan-eHayat and Karachi Psychiatric
Hospital. These visits were the
part of their internship course
which is focused on community
services. These visits provided the
students an exposure to a psychiatric set-up and gave them an
opportunity to interact with clients suffering from various intellectual and psychiatric problems.

IPP Students during an academic visit

Psychometric Assessments and their Effectiveness

Project Management Institute Karachi Pakistan
Chapter (PMI KPC's) 117th monthly session was held on
11 April 2015 at BUKC. Dr Kiran Bashir Ahmad from IPP

also attended this panel discussion, which had the theme

Career Lifestyles. During discussion, she spoke on
'Psychometric Assessments and their Effectiveness'.

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SPORTS

BU

Sports Gala' 2015

Team of BUM&DC students during Sports Gala 2015

Sports and games are indeed the ways of enhancing

mental and physical growth and eliminate exhaustion. It is
said that Education is incomplete without sports. Keeping
in view its strong implications, Bahria University
Islamabad organized a Sports Gala'2015 for its afliated
medical colleges and constituent units on 27 & 28 April
2015 at Islamabad Campus.
Honorable Rector BU, Vice Admiral (Retd) Tanveer
Faiz HI (M) inaugurated the event. Students actively participated in the games, which included Basketball, Table
Tennis, Volleyball and Badminton.
Among all afliated units, BUM&DC Girls teams
showed remarkable performance and won Basketball and

BU Hosts all Pakistan HEC

Table Tennis Championship 2014-15
BU hosted All Pakistan HEC Table Tennis
Championship 2014-15 held at Islamabad Campus, 13-18
April 2015. Twenty six players of different Universities came
from all over the country to participate in this mega sports
event. They also got a huge chance of interaction with each
other, which created a sense of harmony among them.
Registrar BU, Rear Admiral (Retd) Shahid Saeed HI (M),
inaugurated the event.

Table Tennis competitions. Boys Badminton team from

BUM&DC won runners up trophy, while Girls Badminton
team obtained third position.

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SPORTS

BUKC Sports Week Spring-2015

BUKC celebrated Sports Week Spring-2015 during 20 to 26 April 2015

Keeping its tradition alive, BUKC held

Sports Week 2015 from 20 to 26 April 2015 at
the Campus premises. Different games
including Football, Cricket, Table Tennis,
Volley ball, Chess, Scrabble, and Badminton
were played.

Director BUKC distributing shields among

the winners of Sports Week'15

Special matches were also organized

between students and faculty members. All
the students and faculty Members actively participated during the whole week

Friendly Cricket Match Match between

BUM&DC & PNS Shifa
A friendly cricket match between the teaching faculty from PNS Shifa and BUM&DC students was held
on 4 March 2015. As a result of which, Team Students
was declared winner. During prize distribution ceremony, Idrees Khan of fourth year MBBS received Manof-the-Match trophy and Captain of the winning team
Usama Manzoor of nal year MBBS got the BestBatsman Trophy to his credit. Director General Vice
Admiral (Retd) Tehseen Ullaah Khan, Brig. Retd Prof.
Dr Shaheen Moin, Principal Medical Section and Dr.
Zubair Ahmed Abbasi, Principal Dental Section, faculty
members and other students from BUM&DC attended
this memorable day.

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SPORTS

Karachi Olympiad 2015

Karachi Olympiad 2015 was organized
by Pakistan Sports Board on 7 & 8 March.
During the Olympiad, various matches
among teams from different educational
institutes were held.
In the Badminton Tournament, Girls
team from BUKC obtained rst position.
Final Table Tennis competition took
place between Bahria and Iqra University.
In consequence of which, Girls Table Tennis
Team BUKC obtained second position.
Similarly, BUKC Boys football team, Basket
Ball Girls team, Volley Ball Boys Team and
Throw Ball Girls Team also obtained second
positions in their respective matches.

HEC Inter-University Zone 'C'

Basketball Championship 2015
BUIC Basketball team won HEC Inter University
Zone 'C 'Basketball Championship held at BUIC, 6 to 9
March 2015 by score 68-43. Eleven universities from
Rawalpindi and Islamabad participated in this event. Final
match of the championship was played between Bahria and
NUST University at Islamabad campus.

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MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS