Daily Times
July 30, 2021
The Sindh government has intensified work on a proposal to establish a new industrial zone ‘NKATI 2.’ The site for NKATI 2 will be finalised with the North Karachi Association of Trade and Industry (NKATI).
Sindh Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah expressed these views during a meeting with a KATI delegation led by its president, Faisal Moiz Khan, and comprising SVP Shabir Ismail and Syed Yasir Hussain, chairman of the sub-committee on local bodies. The minister said the promotion of trade and industry is a priority of the Sindh government. He directed the Water Board MD to ensure an uninterrupted supply of water to the industries.
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Karachi
March 16, 2021
Dr Shakeel-ur-Rehman Farooqui, associate professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Karachi, passed away on Monday morning at the age of 61.
His colleagues said he had been admitted in a private hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 a few weeks ago, but due to other complications and the severity of his illness, he could not survive.
His funeral prayers were offered after the evening prayers at Jamia Masjid Ibrahim, which is located on campus, following which he was buried at the university’s cemetery.
The funeral was attended by KU acting vice chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi, Karachi University Teachers Society (KUTS) President Prof Dr Shah Ali Al-Qadr, Jamaat-e-Islami senior leader Dr Meraj Al-Huda Siddiqui, Arts Council President Ahmad Shah, heads of the university’s faculties, and a large number of students and administrative staff members.
PARTICIPANTS of the ceremony cut a cake to mark the Chinese New Year. White Star
KARACHI: The Confucius Institute at the University of Karachi on Thursday evening celebrated Chinese New Year also known as Happy Spring Festival at an hour-long ceremony on the university campus.
Speaking on the occasion, the Pakistani director of the institute, Prof Nasiruddin thanked KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi for lending a helping hand in organising the event. He wished that the new year would bring happiness and prosperity to China and hoped that Pak-China relations would further strengthen. He told the audience that the institute was in its seventh year having six to seven teaching sites in Karachi with 800 students.
‘Benazir spent her entire life empowering democracy’
National
December 28, 2020
KARACHI: Leaders like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his daughter Benazir Bhutto are born in centuries. They sacrificed their lives for empowering democracy in Pakistan, and the whole world appreciates their role.
University of Karachi (KU) acting vice chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi expressed these views while addressing a programme held to pay tribute to Benazir on her 13th death anniversary.
The event was held at KU’s Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Chair (SMBBC), which had been established to share her vision through research on her life and political struggle.
Dr Iraqi said that living nations never forget national leaders like them. “Some personalities in our country have made history, and Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was certainly one of them.”