Vice Chancellor honors first ever convocation at Women Degree College Abbottabad

The nation need best students to become best teachers and scientists in our universities and college to compete in the rapidly developing world where frontier of knowledge is expanding at an exceptional rate. Only the best teaching brains can face and handle the challenges of the miraculous progress through research and mutual collaboration with the greatest minds of the world. This was stated by Prof. Dr. Syed Sakhawat Shah, Vice Chancellor Hazara University Mansehra on the eve of first ever convocation of Govt. Women Degree College Mandian Abbottabad. He said that it is time to recognize that education and federal mindset cannot go together. Even after 64 years of our independence it is shocking that 25 million children of school going age do not get the opportunity of even the primary education which makes Pakistan a disastrous zone. In the global ranking if illiteracy we are a disgraceful state. It has never been realized that only the mothers who are education one can bring about a positive change in the education of society. Our budgetary allocations that are less than 1.5% of the GDP can hardly improve the situation. The decisive force of human resource development through education and training coupled with possession of technology could only rescue us from the present dilemma. He stressed upon the students that the stream of innovative learning, experiences, and intellectual inquiry, which you carry from this college, will make your career brighter and ore promising by winning the credibility of the degree. Let me remind you that learning is a lifelong process and will not end by getting the degree. On the other hand it has just begun. You will have to update your knowledge in the rapidly changing world around you and make your scholarship relevant to the needs of the time. Keep yourself abreast with books to come in contact with the condensed wisdom of the ages for decoding the mystery of life and solving the baffling problems faced by the human race. He said many avenues are open to you and serve the country as professors, doctors, engineers, civil servants, officers of armed forces, bankers, mangers and all the other related fields of public importance. Population wise women are more that 50% and the education women can play a major role to strengthen the country. Ms. Farah Hamid, Secretary Higher Education Department Peshawar, Registrar, Controller of Examinations and Public Relations Officer, Hazara University and professors, parents and students participated in the convocation. The passed-out graduates of science and arts group for the year 2008-09-10 were awarded 140 degrees.

ABBOTT Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Abbottabad

Abbott Museum of Archeology & Ethnology, Abbottabad 

The Abbott Museum was completed and established by the efforts of worthy Vice Chancellor Hazara University Mansehra, Prof. Dr. Ihsan Ali in a short span of time and was then inaugurated by the Federal Minister, Nisar Muhammad Khan on February 22, 2008.
Museum displays the following:

• Archaeological profile of NWFP in general while district Abbottabad and Haripur in particular due to the recent archaeological investigations done by the staff of the Museum. We have documented 304 sites in Abbottabad which proved that the history of the areas goes back to 6th century BC while in Haripur, 292 sites were recorded and the history goes beyond the Buddhist period.
• The Second aspect representing the ethnology of the area, that how they live now and what they are using inside their houses, their traditions, their dresses etc.
• Representing Buddha life story in water colour painting, which is in process.
• The fourth aspect of the Museum is to highlight those political personalities who contributed to the establishment of Abbottabad town and we represented them in a unique artwork “Burning Art”.
• While the fifth aspect of the Museum is to highlight the Gandhara Grave Culture. For this purpose, we display the Gandhara Grave Culture Gankirini-o-Take Excavations 2008 (Chitral) material.
• To highlight the British Colonial Buildings, we have displayed photographs of these buildings for that purpose.
  During the archaeological survey, the surface collections from different sites belonging to Buddhists, Hindushahi and Islamic period have been displayed in the Museum.