Software Technology Parks to Be Set Up In Rawalpindi and Faisalabad
In a major development towards enhancing the IT industry growth in Pakistan, two MoUs (Memorandum of Understandings) were signed on Thursday for setting up software technology parks in Faisalabad and Rawalpindi.
A ceremony in this regard was held at committee room of Ministry of IT. Federal Secretary Ministry of IT & Telecom Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui was chief guest .
The software technology park in Faisalabad would be set up at Sitara Chemical’s Ali Fatima College of Science & Technology with a space of 19,500 sq.ft and is the first-ever software technology park to be set up in Faisalabad.
Future of private BA, MA students hangs in balance
Dawn 10 January 2021
Thousands of students, who are enrolled in higher education as private candidates, would no longer be able to continue their education after 31 March as the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has directed the universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to stop enrolment of private students for BA and MA examinations, writes Mohammad Ashfaq for
Dawn.
However, HEC and universities in the province have not developed any alternate system for private students, who are in-service or couldn’t get admission in colleges and universities for multiple reasons, according to sources.
Out of the 30 public sector universities, this scribe got data of a few according to which 30,000 students appeared as private candidates in the bachelor of arts (BA) examination conducted by Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan last year, 25,000 students in University of Peshawar, 20,450 in Bannu University and more than 11,000 appeared in the e