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Islamabad, July 02, 2021 (PPI-OT): Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue (IRD), of International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) organized a seminar in Karakoram International University (KIU), Hunza Campus titled “The Role of Youth in Building an Inclusive and Tolerant Society”.

Prof. Dr. Husnul Amin, Executive Director, IRD, IIUI while addressing the seminar participants said that educational institutions should increase their efforts to engage youth in building an inclusive and tolerant Society. Dr. Amin added that Pakistan have a huge bulge of youth and we should invest best of our abilities to utilize them for the future betterment of the society. He further said that Universities may increase their collaboration to engage youth from different parts of the country with diverse backgrounds.

Dr. Rehmat Kareem, Director KIU, Hunza Campus lauded the outreach programs of IRD for the remote areas of Pakistan. Both the dignitaries agreed for future collaboration for such activities. The IRD resource person Mr. Waqas Ahmed enlightening the students about the topic said that the tolerant society can be built by appreciating the diversity in differentiation without negation. The seminar was also attended by Director, ORIC, IIUI, Faculty and students from KIU Hunza Campus.

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Public Relations,

International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)

Room No.118, Admin Block, New Campus,

H-10 Sector, Islamabad, Pakistan

Tel: +92-51-9019249

Fax: +92-51-9257909

Email: iiuipublicrelations@iiu.edu.pk

Website: www.iiu.edu.pk

Islamabad, July 02, 2021 (PPI-OT): Ms. Saima Noor and Ms. Ghulam Sughra have defended their PhD dissertations at the Department of Physics, while both of the scholars were supervised by of Dr. Shumaila Sajjad Associate Professor, Department of Physics.

Ms. Saima Noor has focused her research work on electrochemical water splitting for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions, Photocatalysis energy oriented and environmental remediation applications through cost effective and environmentally friendly nanomaterials based on Carbon and metals oxides. The supervisor told that this high-level work is performed in Nano photo Catalysis lab established by her through HEC-NRPU funding. She added that this work brings new insight for designing multifunctional materials for energy conversion and environmental remediation applications.

Scholar’s research output has been published in world reputable SCI journals i.e., Journal of cleaner production Impact Factor = 9.297 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652620333254), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Impact Factor = 5.816) and Journal of Environmental Sciences (Impact Factor = 5.569). She has achieved accumulative Impact Factor of 35 from seven publications of her PhD work.

Meanwhile, Ms. Ghulam Sughra’s research endeavours have been published in world prestigious SCI journal, Journal of Hazardous materials having an Impact Factor of 10.588 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389419310416). Her accumulative impact factor is more than 30 from her 5 out class publications. The quality work of a researcher is always valuable. This work was also performed in Nano photo Catalysis lab.

The Supervisor said that the research field of Ms. Ghulam Sughra Jamila is Photocatalytic wastewater treatment, energy production applications via Nano-composites based on Carbon quantum dots modified metal oxides. Carbon quantum dots are emerging new materials utilized in diverse fields. Thus the facile and easy route to synthesize nanocomposites exhibiting enhanced photocatalytic degradation efficiencies can be competently applied for waste water treatment.

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Public Relations,

International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)

Room No.118, Admin Block, New Campus,

H-10 Sector, Islamabad, Pakistan

Tel: +92-51-9019249

Fax: +92-51-9257909

Email: iiuipublicrelations@iiu.edu.pk

Website: www.iiu.edu.pk

Islamabad, July 02, 2021 (PPI-OT): A two-day online workshop was organized by Shariah Academy, International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) on “Food Industry: Shariah Rules”. The workshop was conducted in collaboration with Sinha Halal Associates Pakistan from 26th to 27th June, 2021 while it was attended by as many as 170 people not only from the country but also from Bangladesh, Malaysia, Bahrain, Occupied Kashmir and other Gulf countries. The main objective of the workshop was to introduce in detail and review the Shariah rules regarding the Islamic food industry and the steps taken by the Government of Pakistan in this regard.

Main topics of the workshop were awareness of Islamic principles regarding halal and haraam food, general introduction of steps taken for halal food in Pakistan, standards for halal industry in Pakistan “Pakistan Halal Standard” (PS: 3733-2019) Halal Management System Requirements “The detailed introduction and analysis and in particular the Organization of the Islamic world The OIC level included awareness of halal food efforts.

Mr. Akhtar A. Baghio, Director General, Pakistan Halal Authority, Prof. Dr. Abdul Hai Abro (Director General, Shariah Academy), Mr. Mufti Yousuf Abdul Razzaq (Chief Executive, Sinha Halal Associates, Pakistan) participated in this workshop. ) Mr. Mufti Ahsan Zafar and Dr. Mufti Syed Arif Ali Shah Al-Husseini spoke on the above topics.

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Public Relations,

International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)

Room No.118, Admin Block, New Campus,

H-10 Sector, Islamabad, Pakistan

Tel: +92-51-9019249

Fax: +92-51-9257909

Email: iiuipublicrelations@iiu.edu.pk

Website: www.iiu.edu.pk

Islamabad, July 02, 2021 (PPI-OT):The Shariah Academy, International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) is organizing a two-day international conference on “Codification of Family Laws and Its Impact on Islamization of Laws” from 29th to 30th September, 2021.

The objectives of this conference includes to study the current situation of codification of family laws in the Muslim World particularly in Pakistan Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Morocco, to analyze the views of Ulama and religious Scholars about the codification of Islamic Law, to highlight the challenges in the process of codification of Family laws, to analyze the role of codification in the process of Islamization, to elaborate how to get benefit from the current experiences of Muslim Countries in the field of family laws, to elaborate the Role of the Pakistani higher judiciary in interpreting the family laws and its impact on Islamization and to propose some concrete recommendations and viable mechanism for the Islamization of laws in Pakistan.

The themes of the conference will, codification of family laws: Current situation, role of codification of Family laws in the process of Islamization, reforms in Family Laws in the Muslim World and their relevance to Islamization of laws in Pakistan, and Family laws for Muslim in non-Muslim Countries. Judges, senior lawyers, academia, Shariah Scholars, students, and representatives from the relevant departments may participate and present their research papers in this event.

For more information, contact:

Public Relations,

International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)

Room No.118, Admin Block, New Campus,

H-10 Sector, Islamabad, Pakistan

Tel: +92-51-9019249

Fax: +92-51-9257909

Email: iiuipublicrelations@iiu.edu.pk

Website: www.iiu.edu.pk

Islamabad, June 30, 2021 (PPI-OT):Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue (IRD) of International Islamic University (IIU) and Karakoram International University (KIU) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate with each other in the promotion of education.

According to the MoU, both universities will cooperate in the field of training and capacity building of youth and other professionals in the fields of Social Sciences, Islamic Studies, law, economics, teaching, education and community work to promote peace, tolerance, harmony, unity, intra-faith dialogues and counter-narrative to reduce conflicts in the society.

The signing ceremony hosted by IRD was held at KIU. On behalf of IRD, Prof. Dr. Masoom Yasinzai, Rector, IIUI while Prof. Dr. Attaullah Shah, Vice-Chancellor, KIU signed the MoU. In pursuance of MoU, the IRD and KIU would jointly explore new avenues particularly in the areas of publications, research and training. The MoU would pave the way to mutual cooperation, exchange of material and literature and joint conferences and seminars.

The ceremony was also attended by Dr. Husnul Amin, Executive Director-IRD, Dr. Tasawar Baig, Dean, FSS, KIU, Director ORIC KIU, Prof. Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad Director ORIC, IIUI, Dr. Sadia, Chairperson, Department of IR, KIU and other officials.

For more information, contact:
Public Relations,
International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)
Room No.118, Admin Block, New Campus,
H-10 Sector, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92-51-9019249
Fax: +92-51-9257909
Email: iiuipublicrelations@iiu.edu.pk
Website: www.iiu.edu.pk

Islamabad, June 30, 2021 (PPI-OT):Female Medical Centre in collaboration with Female Provost Hostel conducted a First-Aid training session at the female campus hostels. It was attended by officers, staff and students. Doctors and medical staff elaborated the basic First-Aid skills through videos as well as through actual demonstration.

This session was organized to provide safety to patients until medical assistance arrives and to help staff and students to deal any such hazardous and life threatening situation. Dr. Humaira Ishfaq, Provost Hostels thanked for the efforts of Dr. Asia, Dr. Sidra, Dr. Sabeen and the whole medical team. She termed it a valuable and most important activity while calling upon more awareness in this regard.

For more information, contact:
Public Relations,
International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)
Room No.118, Admin Block, New Campus,
H-10 Sector, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92-51-9019249
Fax: +92-51-9257909
Email: iiuipublicrelations@iiu.edu.pk
Website: www.iiu.edu.pk