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Islamabad The workshop was organised by the Electrical Engineering Department of the university in collaboration with University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. More than 60 participants, including external faculty members, researchers, telecommunication professionals and students attended the training workshop. Professor Dr Raziq Yaqoob gave lectures. In the concluding ceremony, special guest member telecommunication, Ministry of IT, Dr Syed Ismeel Shah, said that they have to bring major reforms in the IT sector to make the country at par with international standards.

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The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology along with other institutions launches journal of biology on the Topic of "ASSOCIATION OF ASTHMA WITH CARBON MONOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS ON THE ROADS OF KARACHI AND POTENTIAL BLOOD LEVEL OF CARBOXY HAEMOGLOBIN" This paper aims to investigate carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations on roadways of Karachi, potential blood levels carboxy hemoglobin (COHb) in Karachiites and evaluate its association with asthma prevalence in Landhi and Korangi towns of Karachi city. Geographical information system (GIS) was used for spatial analysis of diseases potentiality while an interpolation technique has been applied for surface generation with town boundaries and later evaluates risk areas. The results depicted that the Union Councils wise estimated carboxy hemoglobin (COHb) levels with mean and maximum values were found in the range of 1.24% to 1.86% and 1.35% to 3.06% respectively. This study shows that the asthma pre...

Karachi Almost all the speakers on the second day of a three-day media conference, themed “Media Agenda 2012”, on Wednesday expressed concern over the changing trends in journalistic norms, the falling standards of the language and the market-oriented pursuit the field is turning into. The conference is being held under the joint aegis of the Federal Urdu University of Arts Science, and Technology (Fuuast) and the Higher Education Commission (HEC). Zaffar Abbas, the editor of Dawn, stressed the need for objectivity in reporting and journalism. He said that what was supreme was public interest and if public interest demanded uncensored publication of a news story, it must be done. Jawed Naqvi, Dawn’s correspondent in New Dehli, said that freedom of the press to a great extent was a myth as there would only be freedom to the extent that the newspaper owner wanted. He would not let freedom of the press go beyond the limit where it would hurt his corporate or personal interests...

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KARACHI:  A three-day international conference on exploring the media’s agenda in contemporary times would begin at the Arts Council today. The conference is being organised by the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Awaz Institute of Media Sciences, the Karachi Press Club and Pakistan International Airlines. “The conference will bring together journalists from print and electronic media, as well as experts from Pakistan, India, United Kingdom and the United States,” said Prof. Dr Tauseef Ahmed Khan, head of FUUAST’s mass communication department. FUUAST spokesperson Irum Fazal said that Dawn Group of Publications chief executive Hameed Haroon would be the chief guest of the inaugural session today. Dr Mubarak Ali, Ghazi Salahuddin, and Dr Jafar Ahmed are expected to speak at the moot today. SOURCE: http://tribune.com.pk/story/385503/conference-media-workshop-at-fuuast-from-to...

KARACHI, May 29: The impact of globalisation, corporatism and glamourisation on the media, interference by the management and the government in editorial content and journalists’ credibility were just some of the topics touched upon by senior media persons speaking at the third international conference organised by the Mass Communications Department of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology at the Arts Council here on Tuesday. Day one of the three-day conference called ‘Media Agenda 2012’ saw the holding of three sessions. The morning session, presided over by Dr Mohammad Qaiser, threw light on various threats to the media. Hence panellists historian Dr Mubarak Ali, educationists Dr Seemi Naghmana, Dr Tauseef Ahmed Khan, Prof Aijaz Farooqui and Dawn Media Group’s CEO Hameed Haroon were of the opinion that even though the press had gone through its share of difficulties over the years and this may be a relatively easier period for the press, there were still...