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**Pakistanis take home prize at world’s largest science fair
PITTSBURGH: With just three finalists present among 1,549 students, two Pakistani teenagers managed to snag a fourth place, $500 award at the Grand Awards Ceremony of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on Friday in Pittsburgh.**
The project titled: Energy Square for Cattle, created by Mahnoor Hassan, Shiza Gulab and Bushra Shahed of the Institute of Computer and Management Sciences in Peshawar took fourth prize in the Animal Sciences Category.
Hassan and Gulab were there to collect the prize for their project. They explained that their project is good for all livestock in times of natural disaster.
The fair concluded on Friday afternoon, in a confetti haze as the top prizewinner was announced. The winner was fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka from the US state of Maryland who created a Non-Invasive Pancreatic Cancer Detection Tool.
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the largest of its kind, is a program of the non-profit Society for Science and the Public (SSP) and encourages young innovators to engage in math and science.
INTEL-ISEF 2012: Pakistanis take home prize at world’s largest science fair – The Express Tribune
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So many times I thought to post it, but coldn’t do it for one reason or the other :smack2:
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mene post kia yaan aapne baat tu ik hi hai :)
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Russian government selects
Pakistani youngster as ambassador**
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Ministry and Russian Youth Ministry organised global youth event “International Seliger” and selected seven ambassadors from across the world.
Pakistani youngster Jehangir Akram is one of the seven selected ambassadors, who will be representing 28 Asian countries.
“International Seliger” is organised with the support of Russian President, Russian Foreign Ministry and Youth Ministry, selecting 400 competitive individuals from across the world and inviting them to Russian Federation.
This is an educational event in which these young selected individuals will get chance to meet world class entrepreneurs, journalists, think tank officials, government officials, trainers, speakers, and famous personalities, and at the end of the event participants will be honoured getting certificates signed by Russian Government.
Jehangir Akram is resident of Karachi and is MBA student at SZABIST University.
He works for China Harbour Engineering Company Limited as Assistant Manager Marketing.
He has also been invited to Moscow by top Russian Security Think Tank “PIR CENTER”.
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**Pakistan, Indonesia trade to touch $2b
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**ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of Pakistan to Indonesia Sanaullah said Pakistan, Indonesia Preferential Trade Agreement had built up confidence of business community in both countries and bilateral trade was expected to reach a volume of two billion dollars from the present level of one billion dollars.
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The ambassador was talking to Indonesian daily, Republika in Jakarta, said a press release received here on Sunday. “Signing of trade is certainly moving upwards after the PTA and we are seeing the results,” he remarked.ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of Pakistan to Indonesia Sanaullah said Pakistan, Indonesia Preferential Trade Agreement had built up confidence of business community in both countries and bilateral trade was expected to reach a volume of two billion dollars from the present level of one billion dollars.
The Ambassador, when asked about specific sectors for trade promotion, named palm oil, rubber, rubber products, coal and other agro-based products.
He said Pakistan with its vast experience and wherewithal was ready to help boost Indonesia’s sugar manufacturing sector which had suffered a slowdown lately. He also asserted that Indonesia needed to ease out its visa regime which he said was the real key to encouraging increased exchanges between business and commerce sectors of the two countries.
“There is a vast reservoir of good will among both the people on which we can further build our all-round cooperation,” the Ambassador remarked. “For that we have to facilitate and encourage exchanges at all levels,” he said.
The Ambassador during his talk dismissed the impression that Pakistan was complacent on militants. He said Pakistan’s contribution in the war on terror was internationally recognized. “It is a long drawn process and we have to be patient to see the desirable conclusive end to this war,” he added.
Ambassador Sanaullah led an Embassy delegation for a three-hour roundtable with the editorial board of Republika, chiefly focusing on Pakistan-Indonesia relations, Pakistan-US ties and the issue of militancy.
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Australia makes Pakistan Student “Math Ambassador”
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ALIA - The Government of Australia on Thursday made Moosa Feroz, a 13-year old student from Phalia, a far-flung area of Punjab, who secured the first position in an online World Mathematics Competition, held in Australia, as its math ambassador. He reserved the first spot among 1.4 million students across the world. As his voice gives a disappointing tone over indifference by the federal and Punjab governments, Moosa said that he was expecting a warm welcome on his return from Australia.
“I feel really sad as I was expecting the prime minister or Punjab chief minister to encourage me on this achievement for Pakistan.”It seems that they do not have time to motivate emerging talent in the country,” he said. Moosa was awarded gold medal in Australia recently. He secured 4405 points and got the first place while another Pakistani student Hasnain got second position in the competition with 4303 points in 11-13 years age category. In the category of age 14-18 years, the country’s another student named Osama secured second place with 3318 points. Moosa said that he has been trying to win world math competition since 2009. “I have also clinched 5th spot in 2011.” Moosa’s father Dr Khaliq Dad Tarar expressed joy over his son’s performance. “I am proud of my son who has made Pakistan’s name across the world with his untiring efforts and hard work,” he said.
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Interview of Moosa Feroze Tarar (Winner of World Maths Competition)
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what a gem :k:
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highest saudi award and street named on pakistani farman ali khan
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**Excellent work by Dr. Junaid!:k:
Think of an ambulance and the first image that comes to mind is a white Suzuki Bolan painted with a red cross. No wonder then that the Aman Foundation’s sleek, bright yellow ambulances stand out among the fume-spewing buses, noisy rickshaws, and death-defying motorcyclists on Karachi’s chaotic roads.
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You must often have spotted one tearing through unrelenting traffic, rushing the sick and injured to a hospital. In a city rife with medical emergencies, where target killings, bomb blasts and road accidents are a daily occurrence, these vehicles save many precious lives. How this network of ambulances was established is an inspiring story which starts with an ambitious boy, Junaid Razzak, who rose from humble origins.
Today, Razzak is a renowned emergency medicine expert and the executive director of the Aman Foundation. He started his schooling at a humble primary school in Lyari, completing his secondary education from Nasira School in Depot Lines. Not one to be held back, the hard-working student subsequently attended Adamjee Science College where his impressive grades and unbounded enthusiasm won him a scholarship at the prestigious Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), the top private medical institution in the country.
It was in his fourth year of medical school that Razzak discovered his true calling: emergency medicine. “Fourth year is the time when you choose your field. Most of my fellow students went abroad for internships, but I stayed back and spent time in the emergency room at AKUH,” he says.
It was time well spent. When he saw the sorry state of emergency medicine, Razzak was driven to bring about changes in the field. He graduated from AKUH in 1994, but his interest in emergency medicine only grew.
In collaboration with the Edhi Ambulance Service, an arm of the philanthropic Edhi organisation and the largest volunteer ambulance network in the world, he researched and analysed road traffic injuries and emergency cases. Edhi had a mountain of documentation for every call and every case it had handled in the last two decades. The downside? None of it was digitised, so he spent days sifting through it manually.
The experience stayed with him, and the data revealed a disturbing pattern. Gruesome injuries, often suffered by the poorest members of society, were often improperly handled by well-meaning doctors, simply because of a lack of know-how. These mistakes frequently, and literally, led to the loss of life and limb.
Yet, Razzak soon realised that he needed more professional training and specialisation courses before he could progress further. He sat for the US Medical Licensing Exams (MLE) and had observations at the Beth Israel Medical Centre, New York, and the Yale-New Haven Hospital, Connecticut. In 1996, his residency and training programme at Yale University’s School of Medicine started and in 1999, he was given the ‘Best Trainee’ award by the State of Connecticut.
On the personal front, Yale was also important for the doctor since he met his future wife there. Following graduation, the two stayed in the US for a few years, always looking forward to the time when they would return home. “The plan was always to come back,” says Razzak. “That’s why we never bought a house, never completely settled in.”
Before they could come back, Razzak did his PhD in Public Health at the world-renowned Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, where he focused on the use of ambulance data for monitoring road traffic accidents. Finally, in 2005, the studious boy from Kharadar returned to Pakistan as a successful, qualified expert in emergency medicine.
He joined his alma mater, AKUH as a faculty member and went on to successfully found Pakistan’s first emergency medicine service (EMS) training programme at the university. “There were many doctors who were awarded their degrees without ever administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as it wasn’t a requirement,” he reveals.
This changed when his EMS programme became a mandatory rotation that all students had to serve. Subsequently, Razzak went on to build and head a new emergency department. Yet, the battle was just half won. Students in the new department faced a dilemma, similar to the one Razzak had as a student. They were required to go to the United Kingdom to sit for their exam, otherwise they would not be considered qualified.
“We had trainees, but no exams here,” he says. “If these students couldn’t sit for their exams here, they weren’t qualified on paper and therefore couldn’t be hired as consultants.”
Determined to remove, for others, the hurdles that he himself had crossed only after many toils, Razzak collaborated with the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) to organise a curriculum for the specialised field. The first batch for this course was enrolled last year. Now students wanting to specialise in emergency medicine will be able to obtain certification in their chosen field, without having to travel abroad.
“I consider this a major achievement,” he says with a smile. “**I don’t think there is any country that requires this specialisation more than us, with all the natural disasters, deteriorating law and order situation and terrorist attacks that we face.”
**At just 40, this medical expert has achieved what most people can only dream of in a lifetime, but he still has big plans for the future. Razzak will shortly launch a tele-health service for Aman Foundation and dreams of building a world-class health facility in Pakistan. It seems that nothing is impossible for this inspirational doctor.
Positive Pakistani: Call of duty – The Express Tribune
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A Sialkot based student who runs the Rescue Pakistan Youth Foundation
Ghalib Khalil is a 17-year-old from Pakistan.
In 2010, a few of Ghalib’s beloved friends passed away and floods destroyed his country badly. Upset that there was no government support for the victims, Ghalib decided to take action by creating the Rescue Pakistan Youth Foundation.
Ghalib has been thanked by the victims, some of whom prayed for him with tears in their eyes. This gives him satisfaction and also motivates him to work more. He has been getting emails from people thanking him for what he is doing for the people of his country, and has been told at times that he has motivated them with his actions. Looking back to what it was and what it is now, Ghalib sees a major change in the areas, communities and people with whom he worked.
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**Pakistani doctor inducted into Medical Hall of Fame
**WASHINGTON: Illustrious Pakistani doctor S Amjad Hussain, has been inducted into the Medical Mission Hall in Toledo, Ohio.
**Amjad Hussain is one of 34 individuals from around the world who are now members of the Medical Mission Hall of Fame.
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The MMHOF was created in 2004 to honor those individuals and organisations who have made significant and substantial contributions to advancing the medical well-being of people throughout the world.
A native of Peshawar, Dr Hussain has participated in medical and teaching missions for more than 40 years. He has traveled to the Dominican Republic, China, Libya, India and Pakistan, where he has taught a legion of medical students and doctors and has donated tons of supplies and equipment. Professor emeritus of thoracic cardiovascular surgery at the University of Toledo, he is a graduate of Khyber Medical College in Peshawar.
The inventor of two surgical devices – the pleuro-peritoneal shunt and a special endotracheal tube to supply oxygen during fiberoptic broncchoscopy in awake patients – he was recognised by the Khyber Medical College with its first lifetime achievement award during its golden jubilee celebration in 2005.
Dr Hussain is the author of seven Urdu and six English books on diverse subjects including religion, culture, history and international relations.
Illustrious Pakistani doctor inducted into Medical Hall of Fame – The Express Tribune
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**Citi Pakistan wins ‘Best Programme’ award
**KARACHI: Citi Pakistan has been awarded the ‘Best Community Programme’ award for its pioneering work in microfinance and vocational training at the International CSR Awards 2012.
The bank has been focusing its programmes on microentrepreneurship for vulnerable groups, including helping female entrepreneurs set up businesses. This is evidenced through the Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards (CMA) programme, which has been run in association with the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) for the past eight years through an annual grant provided by the Citi Foundation. staff report.
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Shiza Gulab DistinctionLAHORE:May 20:THREE Pakistani students Shiza Gulab, Mahnoor Hassan and Bushra Shahed have represented Pakistan with an award-winning project at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2012.
The world’s largest high school science research competition, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a programme of Society for Science & the Public, announced its top winners in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Shiza Gulab, Mahnoor Hassan and Bushra Shahed were the winners of a fourth place grand award in the animal sciences category and awarded $500.00 for their project entitled ‘energy square for cattle.’ Jack Andraka, 15, of Crownsville, the US, was awarded the first place for his new method to detect pancreatic cancer.The news.
Manoor and Bushra (from Peshawar) win 4th position at the Intel ISEF ‘Energy Square for Cattle’ competition in America. They were nominated for coming up with a unique form of cattle feed.
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future of Pakistan :k:
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**Whiz kid: 14-year-old to present first research paper
****After breaking four world records, 14-year-old whiz kid from Dera Ismail Khan, Babar Iqbal is now set to present his first research paper at the 8[SUP]th[/SUP] IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology.
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Iqbal will present a paper on digital forensic science, the field that covers the recovery and investigation of data from digital devices and is often used to aid computer crime investigations.
This is not the first time Iqbal has been in the spotlight, he was the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and the youngest Certified Internet Web Professional (CIWA) at the age of nine.
He then went on to become the youngest Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA), youngest Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) and youngest Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in .NET 3.5 at the age of 10, 11 and 12 respectively.
Whiz kid: After 4 world records, 14-year-old to present first research paper – The Express Tribune
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Amazing Thread.
Shukran for all contributions. :k:
