KARACHI:The Board of Advanced Studies and Research, University of Karachi, has awarded 23 MPhil and 30 PhD degrees in various disciplines.
The Registrar, KU, said that BASR in its recently held meeting under the chairmanship of the varsity’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Dr Muhammad Ajmal Khan, awarded these degrees.
According to him, the MPhil degrees were awarded to Sani-e-Zehra Zaidi, Saleema Mehboob Ali, Durriya Naeem Khan and Urooj Nazn (Molecular Medicine), Adil Shakil Ahmed (Marine Science), Nimra Mazhar (Pharmacognosy), Saira Nasim and Sundas Iqbal (Marine Biology), Muhammad Shoaib (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), Sheeba Rizvi, Marium Nasir (Chemistry), Asad Iqbal (ISPA), Aijaz Bashir, M Riaz and M Omer Rafiq (Islamic Learning), Shumaila Hashim (Applied Economics), Moona Baig (Pharmacology), Iqra Sarfraz (Clinical Psychology), Maria Qureshi and Sohail Javed (Applied Economics [AERC]), Bushra Shahzad (Public Administration), Mubarak Hussain Zeeshan (Microbiology) and Madiha Arif (Pharmaceutical Chemistry).
Meanwhile, he mentioned that the PhD degrees were awarded to Safia Abidi (Pharmacognosy), Nain Tara (Microbiology), Sarah Anjum (Business Administration), Dr Sumera Gul [MBBS] (Molecular Medicine), Shahnaz (Education), Muhammad Faraz Anwar (Biochemistry [NCP]), Beena Hasan and Sarah Hasan (Biotechnology [KIBGE]), Asmat Saleem, Zaib-un-Nisa and Hina Jabeen (Marine Biology), Salman Sarwat and Syed Shoeb Ahmed (Public Administration), Muhammad Hamza (Islamic Learning), Syed Imran Ali, Faaiza Qazi, Shaista Hamid and Farrukh Rafiq Ahmed (Pharmaceutics), Salma Nawaz (Law), Saima (Quran and Sunnah), Tanveer Ahmed Siddiqui and Saba Naz (Mathematics), M Naeem Ashraf and Umair Rais Uddin (Arabic), Faiz Rasool (Scciology), Anila Mukhtar (Psychology), Zaheer Ahmed Khan (Applied Chemistry), Mehnaz Ahmed (Biotechnology) and Uzair Nisar (Pharmacology).