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HEC Professors Receive Civil Awards
Two of the Higher Education
Commission’s foreign professors,
Dr. Khalida Inyat Noor and Dr.
Shuakat Mehmood received civil
a w a r d s o n c o u n t r y ’ s
Independence Day. Dr. Khalida
has received the Pride of
Performance while Dr. Mehmood
received Sitara-e-Imtiaz.
Dr. Noor, who obtained her PhD from Wales University
UK, is an internationally renowned figure in
Mathematics and is presently employed as HEC Foreign
Professor at COMSATS Institute of Information
Technology (CIIT) Islamabad. She has introduced a
new technique called ‘Noor Integral Operator’ which has
proved to be an innovation in the field of geometric
function theory and has brought new dimensions in the
realm of research in this area. She is an active
researcher coupled with 35 years teaching experience in
different countries.
She is the editor/reviewer of over 23 international
journals. She has been instrumental in establishing
PhD/MS programmes at CIIT. She has over 300 research
articles in reputed international
journals of mathematical and
engineering sciences.
Dr. Shaukat Mahmood, commonly
known as Maxim, has been
awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz by the
Government for his services to
Islamic architecture and arts. Dr.
Shaukat passed his MA (Fine Arts)
from University of the Punjab, Lahore winning a gold
medal. He did his MSc in Architectural Conservation from
the Heriot-Watt University and PhD from the University
of Edinburgh. He was awarded Pride of Performance in
2001 when he was serving at the International Islamic
University, Malaysia.
Dr. Mahmood has published over 300 papers and
research papers on Islamic architecture and Islamic arts.
He has been teaching at various international
universities. He started his career from UET, Lahore as a
Lecturer, becoming head of Architecture Department
and later Dean of Architecture and Planning. Currently,
he is working as HEC Foreign Professor at the College of
Art and Design, University of the Punjab.
HEC's Foreign Funded Programmes
Pakistani Students Win International Research Fellowships
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is managing a wide array of foreign funded scholarship
programmes on behalf of different international sponsors, including UNESCO, Commonwealth,
Asian Development Bank, Organization of the Islamic Conference, etc.
The HEC announces these scholarships in national newspapers as well as through website to invite
maximum number of the applicants. This has resulted in the selection of four Pakistani students,
who have been awarded research fellowships for conducting their research in top universities of
China and Poland.
Tanzila Saba has been selected under UNESCO-Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowship Programme
Cycle-2010, Bushra Qureshi and Humaira Ihsan have been selected under UNESCO-People
Republic of China Great Wall Co-sponsored Fellowship-2011, and Usman has been selected under
UNESCO-Poland Co-sponsored Fellowship Programme.
These students were nominated from Pakistan through a transparent and rigorous selection carried
out by the Higher Education Commission. HEC is also facilitating execution of Commonwealth
Scholarships tenable in UK, ADB Japan Scholarships, UNESCO Award and Fellowships, and Erasmus
Mundus Scholarship Programme.
It is worth mentioning here that in 2010, an Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Javeria Shaikh has
completed her studies with distinction in three different countries (Italy, Spain and Poland) in three
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European Universities and secured 6 position in the world selection competition.
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Muhammad Usman
Bushra Naz
Javeria Manzoor
Humaira Ihsan