Overseas Pakistani Friends

LAHORE: Amn Nasir, a brilliant Lahori student, earned two top positions in the world in Chemistry and Commerce, and topped in the best seven and eight As category in the O-Level International Examinations of Cambridge University.

ISLAMABAD: Yousaf Ali Khan, studying in Hanyang University, South Korea, under Higher Education Commission (HEC) scholarship programme, has won the first prize in International Robot Outdoor Navigation Contest 2009 held at Gwangju, Korea.

Islamabad: Asad Khan, a Pakistani boy studying in Maryland (USA), has been awarded the ‘President’s Award for Educational Excellence’ in recognition of his outstanding academic performance in 2009, says a press release issued here on Wednesday.

Threatening the media is a certain indicator of people losing their sleep and mind over their own plight. It also proves that their very large and wider financial interests are at stake. They have a hidden and black agenda. Their own conscience is being awakened by such pricking reports, and they need to let it hibernate during their reign of false power and terror.

BOSTON: Pakistani professor, Asim Khwaja, has become one of the first Pakistanis to achieve tenure at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Tenure guarantees academic freedom as well as job security. Tenure is offered to the best and brightest of the professors who show the most promise in increasing the university’s reputation through their research, books [...]

Dear Pakistani friends,
I just read something about Pakistani students how great success they had in school aspects and how they were awarded with the best prizes as most intellectual students in the world.

Syed Farhan Haider Zaidi, a Government College University (GCU) student, has won an Italian scholarship through an international open competition by securing 94 percent in the qualifying exam.
Zaidi is the only Pakistani, and one among four non-European students, to have won the scholarship for the PhD programme in innovative technologies.

A new report claims that Pakistan is developing “more advanced nuclear technology”, while India has in recent days signalled the need for new tests – marking a growing arms race in the subcontinent.
Citing a study in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Telegraph said Pakistan is “pushing ahead” with a plutonium-based nuclear programme, superior [...]

ISLAMABAD: Planning Commission on Science and Technology member Dr Samar Mobarakmend said on Tuesday that the first satellite of Pakistan would be launched in April 2011.
He expressed these views while addressing a three-day International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering, 2009, as chief guest. “The country has sufficient funds for atomic and space programmes, and [...]

By Muhammad Anis
The National Assembly here on Tuesday hailed the worldwide achievements of the genius cyber kid, Babar Iqbal, in the field of computers, who was specially invited to a session of the Lower House of Parliament.
Sitting in the visitors’ gallery, the 12-year-old talented boy from Dera Ismail Khan was introduced to the MNAs by [...]