Vol 5 Issue 4

October - December 2010 01

A team of CIIT members comprising Dr. Iftikhar A. such as:Raja and Dr. Arshid Pervez participated in workshop on “Climate & Environmental Change: Challenges for a. MoU among COMSATS (International) members of Developing Countries” and “Meeting of Thematic Thematic Group was signed by all participating Group” held in Beijing, China from November 17-20, members except the delegates from India, Nepal 2010. and Sri Lanka. They agreed in principle to

participate in the activities set in the MoU and The team members played an active and leading role promised to sign the document after consulting in the workshop and Thematic Group meeting. Two their superiors.papers presented in workshop are: b. It was agreed to develop two project proposals to

cover the following areas:a.Representing worthy Rector, Dr. S.M. Junaid Zaidi

(S.I.), Dr. Iftikhar A. Raja presented “The Role of 1. Climate ChangeHigher Education Institutions in the 2. Green Technologies and Energy Development of Climatic Understanding” c. Dr. Iftikhar A. Raja will act as focal point (Group

b. The title of the paper presented by Dr. Arshid leader) for developing the proposal on “Green Pervez was “Flood Disaster in Pakistan: Post Technology (Renewable Energy)”Relief Management” D. The CIIT will be host for the next meeting of the

th“Thematic Group”. The meeting is linked with 4 The meeting of the Thematic Group was successful. International Conference ESDev-2011 which will The team managed to achieve the objectives set be held on July 24-26, 2011. Local hospitality during the meeting on November 14, 2010, with Dr. (pick-up and drop from Islamabad airport, Imtinan Elahi Qureshi, Executive Director, COMSATS accommodation and meals during their stay) will

Participation of CIIT Team in Workshop on “Climate and Environmental Change:

Challenges for Developing Countries” and “Meeting of Thematic Group” in Beijing, China

17-20 November 2010

N E W S L E T T E R October - December 201002 03EVENTS

be provided by CIIT. The participation of Chinese Academy of Sciences and develop the Thematic Group in ESDev-2011 wi l l understanding/ linkages/collaboration with them. The INSHAHALLAH make ESDev 2011 conference a team did its best to meet and hold discussions with as mega event, apart from many other associated many delegates as possible. The productive talks were opportunities. held and positive responses were received. It is

Among others, an objective of attending the expected that a lot of opportunities can be availed of by workshop was to meet the delegates from COMSATS extending the initial discussions with many of them. member countries and Academic Institutions of

It is a matter of great pleasure and honor for CIIT Science. The Department was established in March Abbottabad as National Computing Accreditation 2004 and since then it has made giant strides in Council, (NCEAC) of HEC has awarded "W", the providing quality education to the students and is highest category to Department of Computer imparting competitive skills in effective development Science, CIIT Abbottabad till the year 2012. and application of modern technology.Efforts of all faculty members of CS Department are The CIIT Abbottabad’s family extends heartfelt highly appreciated. This is undoubtedly a great congratulations to the Department!achievement made by the Department of Computer

The Electrical Engineering Department, COMSATS This indeed is a great achievement for the Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Department of Electrical Engineering in particular Abbottabad has been approved by Pakistan and CIIT Abbottabad in general. CIIT Abbottabad's Engineering Council as Professional family extends heartfelt congratulation to Dr. Shahid Engineering Body for professional grooming of Khattak, Head, Department of Electrical Engineering Registered/Professional Engineering. In pursuance and all faculty members of EE Department. We have to the subject approval, CIIT Abbottabad Campus devout hopes that the Department will bring many has been awarded the license of Professional other laurels to CIIT Abbottabad.Engineering Body.

Another feather in the Cap of Electrical Engineering Department of CIIT

Department of Electrical Engineering

Humanities Department has been established at his credit 29 years of academic and administrative

CIIT Abbottabad. The faculty members of the experience in Pakistan Army. He holds Masters

Humanities Department are grateful to Professor Degree in English, Education and Islamic studies. He

Dr. Amjad Farid Hasnu, Dean Management Sciences joined CIIT Abbottabad in February 2008 after

Department and Dr. M. Mushtaq Khan, Head of retirement from Pakistan Army.

Management Sciences Department for their Mr. Zeeshan Ali Afsar has been appointed as

interest and tireless efforts towards the Departmental Operating Officer (DOO) while

achievement of this goal. Col. Ikramullah Khan has Miss Rabiah Rustam will be the Departmental

been appointed as Head of Department. He has to Coordinator.

Establishment of Humanities Department

NCEAC accreditation of Computer Science Abbottabad


Annual Technical Conference (2010), jointly a one day seminar on “Tight Gas Reservoirs” organized organized by the Pakistan Association of Petroleum by the PAPG in Islamabad. Furthermore. Dr. Tariq Geologist (PAPG) and Society of Petroleum Engineers Khan and Dr. Mohammad Farooq are acting as (SPE) was held on November 10-11, 2010 in coordinators between PAPG and CIIT, since Islamabad. The successive Annual Technical Technomoot 2010, to boost academic linkages Conferences, since more than a decade, have including PAPG student membership campaign in CIIT provided the only forum to the Geoscientists in Abbottabad. Since then, about 100 faculty members Pakistan to share ideas related to the reservoir and students from CIIT have gained membership of geology, geophysics, reservoir engineering, and PAPG. Earth Sciences program is now working on environment. Presentations were divided into three arrangements for inauguration of a student chapter of themes related to the geology/geophysics, reservoir PAPG at CIIT Abbottabad. This activity will open an engineering, and student presentations. interaction between CIIT students/professors and About 800 geoscientists attended the conference. geoscientists in petroleum industry of Pakistan for This year, Dr. Ishtiaq Jadoon and Khuram Shahzad follow-up activities of mutual interests including represented CIIT Abbottabad as invited participants seminars. Such activities are expected to help generate in the conference and Dr. Tariq Khan and Dr. an interest in the students for focused studies and help Mohammad Farooq represented CIIT Abbottabad in us meet the challenge of quality education.

Industry-AcademiaLinkage Development

Earth Sciences Program, Department of Environmental Sciences

The Department of Management Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad has always emphasized on the development of the students not only by providing high quality education but by engaging them in practical activities that help them to understand the concepts and their applications.Under the supervision of Mr. Umar Hassan, Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad, the students of BBA 7 and 8 were given

3. Job Hunting Techniquesa challenging task to plan and execute a two day The biggest challenge for the students after graduation “Training Workshop” on topics of diverse nature. This is to seek an ideal position in a reputable organization. was an innovative idea and the students who For this purpose, the graduates should be able to make arranged this activity responded brilliantly. a comprehensive and impressive resume along with A brief overview of the sessions conducted is as job application. Secondly, performing well in interviews follows:is a skill that enables them to secure their ideal job. This session was attended by final semester students 1. How to start a new Businessof BBA and MBA. The resource persons made a decent This session was conducted by the students of BBA 8. effort to present different strategies for making The main objective of this session was to highlight impressive CVs and performing well in interviews.different aspects to consider before launching a

business and secondly promoting entrepreneurship 4. Career Counselingin the youth. Another highlight of this session was the Choosing the right specialization is always a huge success story of two current students of COMSATS concern for business students. This session gave them (Asfandyar Farooq Khan and Khwaja Aadil Hameed) an overview of management, marketing and finance who are successfully running their own businesses.along with different job options and career tracks. Personality tests and simulation exercises helped the 2. Success Could be Yoursaudience in understanding which majors to select. This The students of BBA 7 presented the key elements session was conducted by students of BBA 7 who that an entrepreneur should consider while communicated their ideas very effectively. managing his business. Their ideas were supported The participation of EDC (Entrepreneurship by sharing real life experiences of local entrepreneurs Development Center) and Faculty throughout the namely Mr. Kaim Khan, Mr. Salman Qammar and sessions was very encouraging for the students. The Miss. Aalia Adnan. The participants made full use of closing ceremony was chaired by Dr. Mushtaq Khan this opportunity and had a very interactive session Jadoon, Head, Department of Management Sciences, with the entrepreneurs.CIIT Abbottabad. He appreciated the effort of students and emphasized that these activities should be regularly organized and conducted.

Workshop on “Human Resource Development”Department of Management Sciences, 14-15 December 2010

The objective of the workshop was to prepare the participating students for upcoming challenges in their future

A three member delegation of professor and students from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway visited the Department of Development Studies and CIIT Abbottabad. The purpose of the visit was to follow up on the ongoing NORAD frame agreement project in Swat as well as the COMSATS Abbottabad relief and rehabilitation work in the flood affected areas in KPK. The delegation which comprised Dr. Ingrid Nyborg, Ms. Ingvild and Mr. Conner visited Swat, Charsadda and Peshawar districts and met with the community and other stakeholders. It is expected that this visit will open up new avenue for joint research and collaboration between the two institutes.

Visit of Norwegian Delegation to COMSATS Abbottabad

Department of Development Studies, 7-24 November 2010


National BiotechnologyExhibition & Seminar 2010

Department of Environmental Sciences, 20 October 2010

The exhibition helped the scientists, researchers, scholars, students, industrialists and civil society to get familiar with the advancements and latest trends in different disciplines of biotechnology

A one day workshop was organized by Entrepreneurship Development Center (EDC) on November 3, 2010 for the students of CIIT Abbottabad. The purpose of conducting this workshop was to encourage and inculcate entrepreneurship culture among students of CIIT Abbottabad by providing them necessary information and guidance. Professor Dr. Iftikhar A. Raja appreciated this effort during the opening note. He further impressed upon the need to organize such workshops on regular basis so that the interested students may get m a x i m u m b e n e f i t s b y launching their own business

Key resource person of the workshop Mr. Muhammad or expanding their family businesses. Rashid Aman, Senior Manager, SMEDA highlighted the Syed Afzal Moshadi, Manager Training and Research, importance of Entrepreneurship culture for students, EDC debriefed the participants on the basic purpose its potential benefits, general overview of the current of EDC, its objectives and its role in developing business practices while citing practical examples from entrepreneurship culture at CIIT Abbottabad and local and international industry. local industry.

Organizers1. Mr. Jamil Anwar, Head EDC, CIIT Abbottabad2. Syed Afzal Moshadi Shah, Manager Training &

Research, EDC, CIIT Abbottabad3. Mr. Mohammad Rashid Aman, Senior Manager

SMEDA, Peshawar4. Mr. Mohammad Kamran Khan, Regional Business

Coordinator, SMEDA

Resource Persons1.Mr. Mohammad Rashid Aman, Manager-SMEDA

(Peshawar)2.Mr. Mohammad Kamran Khan, Regional Business

Coordinator- SMEDA3.Syed Afzal Moshadi Shah, Manager Training &

Research, EDC

One Day Workshop on “How to start a new business”

at CIIT Abbottabad Department of Management Sciences, 3 November 2010

A total of 33 participants from different departments attended the workshop. Students appreciated relevancy of contents of the workshop and suggested that such activities should be held on regular basis


joined University of Bradford and did his PhD in Business Professor Dr. Syed Amjad Farid Hasnu has been appointed as Economics in 1994. He did his Post Doctorate in Management

Sciences from the University of Bradford in 2006. the Dean, Faculty of Business Administration CIIT. He has a He has published more than 25 research papers in national and

remarkable history of professional and research services. international journals. His appointment as Dean, Faculty of

He did his Masters in Economics from the University of Business Administration, CIIT, is a source of Pride for CIIT

Peshawar in 1985. He then did Masters in Development Abbottabad. Heartfelt congratulations to him from the CIIT

Economics from the University of Sussex, UK. After that, he Abbottabad's family!

Professor Dr. Amjad Farid Hasnuappointed as Dean

Department of Management Sciences

It was the assignment for the students of MBA (Executive) 2 for the course “Corporate Governance” (Instructor: Miss Saira Javaid) to practice social responsibility as the Corporations do it in real world. With the new concept and innovative suggestions, the students decided to do something for the university that will remain here as their mark even when they complete their studies and step forward to their professional life. For this purpose the class started to point out the weak spots of university that need to be fixed, of which one of them was the pathway from the main campus road to the Grounds, there was a small hardly one foot wide wood slab that was above the drain. Students suggested to build a bridge from the main road of university towards the grounds and dhaba. The old wooden slab was too small and students felt uncomfortable crossing that. Thinking of the social responsibility, the idea came up of placing a small bridge to cover that drain and provide a safe passage to the students and the faculty. Every student of the class contributed instead of that small wooden slab. This activity is not Rs.100 and instructor contributed Rs.500 for this just a simple activity that starts and ends on the effort. Mr. Ghias-ud-din Shah inaugurated the assignment, instead it is an initiative taken by us for the event and other faculty members including Mr. betterment of university. Our alma mater gave us Salman Ahmed and Mr. Jamil Anwar also attended many things and now it was our turn to do something the event. Afterwards a small tea party was good for it. organized. “The work we just did as a team doesn't end here, its Student's Comments: With the support of our just the beginning of the trend which we hope will go instructor and contributions made by our class on”.fellows, we managed to make a bridge and placed it

Inauguration of new Bridge at CampusDepartment of Management Sciences, 3 December 2010

The purpose of the assignment was to make the students understand the practical implications of “Corporate Social Responsibility” and to make them realize their responsibility as a citizen

A panel discussion and seminar on Barrier Free Society, organized by A-STAR project (a joint venture of Governments of Pakistan and Japan) under the umbrella of HEAR (Higher Education including Awareness Raising) was held in Azeem Shahzad Hall, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad, on October 12, 2010.

In addition, HEAR activity was organized to promote the students volunteers for A-STAR awareness raising activities, translation work, recording for visually challenged, and assistance of project staff

Students posed various questions to the panelists who with disabilities in future. The session was chaired by responded to the best satisfaction of the questioners. Dr. Muhammad Mushtaq Khan, Head, Department of Dr. Muhammad Mushtaq Khan in his closing remarks Management Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad. thanked the people from A-STAR project to come to

Graduate and undergraduate students from various CIIT to hold seminar on such an important topic. He

disciplines attended the session. The seminar started expressed his resolve on behalf of the Director CIIT

with the recitation from the Holy Quran by Qari Abbottabad to extend full support and all possible help

Muzammal Shah. Mr. Sardar Sadaqat Hussain, a PWD for activities aimed at helping PWDs. He offered to hold

briefed the audience about the activities being special meeting between the CIIT Administration and

carried out under the project. Mr. Khalid Naeem, DG the A-STAR project officials to chalk out practical

(Retd.) special education and currently serving JICA strategy to help PWDs.

gave a comprehensive talk on A-STAR project and The session ended with the understanding that it is not government policies. Mr. Razaullah Niazi spoke on the physical barrier only that has to be removed but the privileges of PWDs and status of facilities for PWDs at attitude of ordinary citizens are to be changed as well CIIT Abbottabad. Ms Ubaida Qureshi, a PWD herself towards the PWDs. gave an inspiring talk on the expectations of PWDs

from the society.

The Project planned this new activity for the Higher Educational Institutions of country, with the objective of raising awareness about social participation of persons with disabilities (PWDs) and to improve physical and information accessibility

One Day Seminar on Barrier Free Society at CIIT Abbottabad

12 October 2010

One day workshop on Manage me n t S c i e n c e s Business Plan Presentation Department concluded the w a s o r g a n i z e d b y session by paying special E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p thanks to guest speaker and Development Centre (EDC), SMEDA representatives. He Department of Management appreciated the efforts of EDC Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad on team in making the training December 29, 2010. The basic sess ion successfu l . He purpose of the workshop was stressed that these types of to nurture the students of CIIT sessions should be arranged Abbottabad on preparation of on regular basis in order to effective business plan and to provide students the updates give them the exposure to the of local as well as international application of the knowledge in the real world. markets. This was followed by certificates distribution Mr. Muhammad Tariq, Ex-Provincial Chief SMEDA among participants. along with Muhammad Kamran Khan, Regional The EDC team comprised Sardar Jamil Anwar, Head Business Coordinator-SMEDA were the resource EDC, Syed Afzal Shah, Manager Training & Research persons for the training. A total of 53 students EDC, and Mr. Asfandyaar Farooq Khan, student participated in the session. Coordinator. At the end of session Dr. Mushtaq Jadoon, Head of

One Day Training Workshop on Business Plan PreparationDepartment of Management Sciences, 29 December 2010


The H i ghe r E du ca t i o n Commission (HEC) in a very prestigious ceremony on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 conferred Best University Teacher Award on 46 faculty members of public sector universities in recognition of their services for improving academic atmosphere in their respective institutions. The award comprised a certificate and cash prize of Rs. 100,000/-. The event was held in HEC Auditorium, Islamabad. Its an honor for CIIT Abbottabad as Dr. Qaisar Mahmood, Assistant Professor,

students. Department of Environmental Sciences also won this HEC Chairperson Dr. Javaid R. Laghari said faculty is award. Dr. Qaisar Mahmood is associated with the heart of any university and reputation of the teaching profession since the year 1996. He served institution depends on its performance. He further Punjab and Federal Education departments before stated that universities are supposed to build joining COMSATS in 2008. He is actively involved in communities and economies and that of course is not research work and has published more than 100 possible without proactive contribution of teachers. Dr. research papers in renowned national and Laghari urged the faculty members to ensure that the international journals. quality of teaching and research improves constantly. He also underlined the importance of a strong linkage For the year 2009, 94 nominations were received between universities and the industry.from 47 public sector universities and degree He also announced that the teachers of private awarding institutions. After scrutiny, 46 teachers universities would also be included for this prestigious were selected for award and Dr. Qaisar Mehmood award from the next year. being one of them. Begum Nuzhat Sadiq, member, HEC Executive Director Dr Sohail Naqvi said that since National Assembly's Standing Committee on 2002, HEC was trying to bring a revolution in the higher Education was the chief guest of the ceremony. education sector. He said that all universities should She appreciated HEC's role for launching a engage with the community, local leadership and programme to recognize role of teachers in national industry for sustainable economic growth. Continuing, development. Addressing the ceremony, she said he stated that universities are not only essential for that recognition is a driving force for putting in more developing the knowledge economy but they also must efforts to achieve further excellence and asked the play a leadership role in their respective communities. teachers to be a role model for their colleagues and

Best University Teacher Award for Dr. Qaisar Mahmood

COMSATS IT Center in collaboration with District Zakat Office Abbottabad have organized a number of skill development programs in various domains of Information Technology including Networks, System Administration and Web Development in the past. The partnership between CIIT and District Zakat Office started in February 2009 with launch of first batch of 200 students. After the completion of first batch, 1-year Diploma in Information Technology in networking program for 100 students was launched in November 2009. The certificate distribution ceremony of DIT program was held on December 11, 2010 at CIIT Abbottabad. Haji Zar Shaid Khan, Provincial Minister for Zakat and Usher was the Chief Guest of the event. He appreciated the efforts of COMSATS IT Center. He encouraged districts and different disciplines for the betterment of the bold initiatives taken to promote deserving youth deserving community. through skill development programs. He also asked CITC to initiate such programs in neighboring

Certificate Distribution CeremonyCOMSATS Information Technology Center, 11 December 2010

rdThe 3 meeting of the Board of Studies for Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy, CIIT. The BoS members who was held on November 25, 2010 at 1100 hours at the participated in the meeting included Prof. Dr. Conference Room of Administration Block, COMSATS Muhammad Jamshaid, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Hajvery University, Lahore, Dr. Kalsoom Farzana, Abbottabad Campus. The meeting was chaired by Pharmacy Department, Baha-ud-Din Zakaria the Convener Prof. Dr Izhar Hussain, Chairman, University, Multan, Prof. Dr. Waqar Ahmad, Pharmacy

MEETING OF BOARD OF STUDIES IN PHARMACYDepartment of Pharmacy, 25 November 2010

Department, University of Malakand, Chakdra, Lower Dir, Dr. Jamshaid Iqbal, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, CIIT Abbottabad, Dr. Taous Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy, CIIT Abbottabad, Dr. Abdul Jabbar Shah, Assistant Professor, Depar tment o f Pharmacy, CIIT Abbottabad, Mr Niaz Ahmed Khaskheli, Additional Registrar, Principal Seat, CIIT Islamabad and Mr. Asif Malik, Assistant Registrar, Principal Seat, CIIT Islamabad. On special invitation, many faculty members from Department of Pharmacy, CIIT Abbottabad including Prof. Dr. Qazi Najam-us-saqib, Dr. Sami Siraj and Dr. Ghulam Murtaza also attended the meeting. starting from Fall 2011 semester. External members The meeting formally commenced with recitation highly appreciated the MS/PhD programs' SoS and from the Holy Quran. After the recitation, Prof. Dr. efforts and hard work put in by all faculty members of Izhar Hussain welcomed all the members, Pharmacy department in drafting different courses of particularly External members of the BoS and International standard, for Pharmacy Graduate thanked them for sparing their valuable time to programs Scheme of Studies. All the members of BoS attend this meeting. unanimously approved the Graduate program SoS and A lot of thought provoking discussions were held on looking at the strengths of the pharmacy department, each of the agenda points and with the input of every recommended to start this program from Fall 2011 member, decisions were made. Most important semester.agenda point being the approval of Scheme of Studies of Graduate (MS/PhD) program of Pharmacy,


Graduate program MS/PhD in Chemistry was 5. Analytical Chemistrylaunched in Fall 2009 which is running very 6. Bio-Chemistrysuccessfully. This year too, a large number of people applied for the program and seventeen students The objective of the program is to provide the students were selected after a tough and merit based test and sound theoretical and practical knowledge. Research admission procedure. facilities are also provided to promote their skills. The In order to fulfill the enormous demand of chemists program also serves as an excellent milestone to bring nationally and internationally, the Department of the students in contact with the eminent scholars Chemistry is offering MS/PhD program with community by involving them in ongoing research specialization in the following Six Streams: projects. The Chemistry Department aims to train the

researchers on the most advanced instruments and 1. Applied Organic Chemistry industrial technical processes which will have direct 2. Industrial Chemistry impact on the development of competitive local 3. Physical Chemistry technology at industrial level.4. Inorganic Chemistry

Commencement of Classes of nd2 Batch of MS Chemistry, Fall 2010

Department of Chemistry

New Arrivals @ Library PEC Visit

During the month of November 2010 more than 100 From December 6-8, 2010, a team of Pakistan books were added to the library stock on variety of Engineering Council (PEC) visited the library. The subjects including Electrical Engineering, Computer Deputy Librarian gave detailed presentation about Science, Pharmacy, Chemistry and Geology etc. Library Services, HEC Digital Library Access @ Campus,

Subscription of Hi-Core Journals and Purchase of On November 13, 2010 Dr. Robert Kvile, Norway's Library Books. They visited different sections of the Ambassador to Pakistan, visited Library. The Director Library and were very appreciative of the Audio/Visual briefed the delegation about Library. Dr. Robert Kvile Section. The visiting team comprised the following appreciated the facilities being provided by Library to members: the students and faculty. Engr. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Amin Library Visits (Convener & Expert)

Engr. Prof. Dr. Imran SheikheOn December 2, 2010 Engr. Prof. Dr. Abid Kareema

Engr. Jahanzeb Khan Mr. Sajid H ShahDirector Information Technology Library New Web PageST&IT Department, Govt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa A new user friendly web page has been launched by Peshawar, Pakistan the Library Staff

Mr. Shaukat AliDirector Technical/CTOPakistan Software Export BoardIslamabad, Pakistan Mr. Syed Ali Abbas HasaniDirector Operations & AdministrationPakistan Software Export BoardIslamabad, PakistanThey were here to discuss collaboration with COMSATS to establish Software Technology Park (STP) in Abbottabad. They also visited the library, a presentation and a brief tour of the library was arranged for them. They appreciated the library setup as well as library services.

LIBRARY INFORMATION SERVICESReport by: Mr. Nafees Ud-Din

Dy. Librarain

Mr. Adnan Jaleel, one of the pioneer employees of CIIT Abbottabad has rejoined the campus after completing his MS (Business Information Technology) from Middlesex University UK. we warmly welcome him to the department and hope that he will prove to be a great asset and his services will benefit the department in the long run.

NEWSBITE Department of Computer Science

CIIT Abbottabad's Students bring laurels to their almamater

Department of Management Sciences, 5-7 November 2010

Many public and private universities of Baluchistan, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtoon Khaw and Azad Jammu and Kashmir participated in the workshop

CIIT Abbottabad's students have been rated the best participants of the workshop by the resource person


IT industry is evolving and technology changes This initiative will provide ability to conduct Microsoft almost on daily basis. This makes knowledge of professional certification programs making it the only trending ICT applications and tools highly curial for Microsoft IT Academy in this region.both academia and industry. COMSATS IT Center, Microsoft IT academy is a subscription-based being an industrial setup based in an academic and membership program which will provide a platform research environment realizes its responsibility and and a learning opportunity for the enhancement of IT aims to provide state of the art technology training skills. This facility will target students, faculty and local and professional certification facility not only to community for training and certification. Access to IT campus but also to the general local community. academy resources will help students and community Pursuant to this objective, COMSATS IT Center has alike to build a successful future in IT industry with the registered for Microsoft IT Academy Program. skills that employers demand.

Microsoft IT Academy

Application IN/OUT report

Details are available at the link: [email protected]

COMSATS IT Center in an effort to extend its service The initial setup of the call center will consists of 20 and business boundaries intends to establish a model seats with 24/7 guaranteed service which will be call center at Abbottabad Campus. This will not only extended to 50 as per requirements and demand. benefit CIIT but will also provide students of CIIT an Initially, only outbound services will be offered which opportunity to work in and learn about a flourishing will be then extended to inbound services. IT center business. CITC is in the process of establishing this intends to target services industry (i.e. banks, hotels, setup which will provide its services to both national gas and power suppliers etc.) for business campaigns.and international companies.

Call Center COMSATS IT Center

NetFlows are available COMSATS IT Center

Free/Open source software (F/OSS) serves as a Following open source products have contributed show case arena to demonstrate to the immensely in enhancing our institutes image, a community ones work as well as technical testament to our belief of imparting education of prowess in corresponding domains of work. Our the latest and bleeding edge technologies in the humble work has been commended and attracted domain of computing and engineering. kudos from around the world.

COMSATS Information Technology Center

CITC is pleased to announce the release of CIITIX-VoIP. CIITIX-VoIP is a carrier grade VoIP server, leveraging upon the great efforts of the open source community.CIITIX-VoIP is based on rock solid debian lenny. This distribution comes as a turn-key solution to any company (small, medium to large scale) wishing to deploy a sip based presence services àla skype. Laced with accounting, NAT and DB backend based features, setting up a SIP based setup is a breeze, achievable within 7 minutes.CIITIX-VoIP is based on a SIP Server released under GPL, able to handle thousands of call setups per second. Among features: asynchronous TCP, UDP and SCTP, secure communication via TLS for Candidat e areas of application are not only limited to VoIP, SIMPLE instant messaging and presence, call centers but office voice communication routing fail-over, accounting, authentication and messengers or other private/public network authorization against MySQL, XMLRPC control requirements.interface. It can be used to build large scale VoIP D e t a i l s a r e a v a i l a b l e a t t h e l i n k : servicing platforms, or to scale up SIP-to-PSTN http://ciitix.ciit.net.pkgateways, PBX systems or other media servers.

CIITIX-VoIP 1.0 released

You can also check out our other offerings:CIITIX-WIFI, a turn-key wifi hotspot server, which has been a very popular open source product the world over, bringing prestige to our institutes name.

Http://ciitix.ciit.net.pk/index.php/ciitix-wifi

CIITIX, an operating system biased toward CS, E n g g a c a d e m i c community, laced with loads of top of the line scientific software.Http://ciitix.ciit.net.pk

Free/Open Source Software


It is worth mentioning that CCDU has created opportunities for the CIIT Abbottabad students to work in the field. Forty two students got paid jobs in CCDU’s different projects.

The achievements that ERC has in its domain include of the people for their daily household applications. In the establishment of well equipped laboratories. ERC these items the emergency lights and uninterruptible not only established those labs but also upgraded power supplies are two main items that are important them in accordance with the requirements so that to mention here. These equipments have low cost and our students could have maximum knowledge when higher efficiency as compared to open market.they leave the campus. ERC has also developed electric circuit trainer, which Under this strategy, the most recent development has been solely designed by the ERC using local that ERC made is in the field of Power Engineering. A facilities and resources. This trainer has better High Voltage Lab has been built in the Engineering response as compared to existing trainers. These block. This is unique and fully operational lab of its trainers have extra features that will help students to kind in the educational circle of this country. This is strengthen there concepts that they have in theory. our achievement that COMSATS plays its regular but Other then these developments ERC is very close to most important role in the best education of its design a high tech smoke detection/Alarm system students. which would not only help the local needs but could HV lab is highly developed lab and contains all the also be marketed based on the requirements. This important requirements that power engineering system is built, based on the requirement of the daily discipline requires. This lab really gives the academia household, industry and offices; it is needed by anyone and industry a genuine linkage by grooming its at any place. This system is in its checking phase and students with technical expertise. soon will be operational.Other then HV lab the communication lab, These are the few contributions that have been made instrumentation lab and Power systems lab have also by ERC, under the guidance of the organization ERC new entries in terms of experimental setups. With will always play an important role in the field of the inclusion of these equipments the labs have been engineering and technology and will establish updated with latest arrivals in the respective fields. COMSATS as one of the leading institutions in the field In the current time COMSATS development team has of engineering and technology. also put forward its ideas to meet the requirements

Engineering Resource Center

Dr. Abdul Jabbar Shah leaves for USA for one year Postdoctoral Research Department of Pharmacy

Dr. Abdul Jabbar Shah, Assistant Professor, published many research papers and his visit abroad Department of Pharmacy, CIIT Abbottabad left for will not only improve his research capabilities but will USA on December 29, 2010 for one year Post also enhance his vision. To celebrate this Doctoral Research. Dr. Abdul Jabbar Shah is one of achievement, the faculty members of the Pharmacy the talented faculty members of the department Department arranged an appreciable farewell party in and an excellent researcher. He has recently his honour and wished him good luck.

Visio Spark is the event organized by CIIT Wah. On ample opportunity to the students to get abreast with October 11, 2010, the 5th Visio Spark was held in latest developments in IT.CIIT Wah in which students from various renowned CIIT Abbottabad's students did very well in it and universities of Pakistan participated and displayed grabbed 1st position in Quiz competition and Gaming their innovative projects. The event also provided competition as depicted in the table below:

Visio Spark 2010Department of Computer Science, 11 October 2010

Sr. # Competition Total

Teams Winners

1 Quiz Competition 45 Bushara Qadir (BTN-7B) Adiah Qazi (BTN-7B)

2 Gaming Competition 17 Umair Nasir (BTN-7A)

Omer Ahmad Noor (BTN-7A) Rashid Ahmad (BTN-7A)

COMSATS Community Development Unit's Journey

By the Grace of Almighty ALLAH, starting its journey organizational and community level; Disaster in January 2007 and with the blessings and guidance Management, Disaster Risk Reduction; Information of its illustrious founder Dr. Haroon Rashid, Director, Education & Communication; Adult Learning, Life CIIT External Campuses, Ms. Absaria Talat Lodhi and Skills, and Information Technology and building of with the support of current management and all the capacities of professionals and communities at departments of CIIT Abbottabad Campus, CCDU different levels.Mission has proven itself in development sector with Since its inception, CCDU has been working on the a successful record of accomplishment. following programs very successfully that include the With continued support and cooperation of following: development partners, including bilateral donors, international organizations and governmental Disaster Management Program

Youth Development Programagencies, CCDU has been able to make significant Community Capacity Building Programcontribution in different areas of its agenda of Professional Development Programactivities like WATSAN, capacity building at

Progress 2007- 2010Financial Report

Year 2007 2008 2009 2010

Finance (in Millions) 0.7 4.39 14.3 31.7

Employment Opportunities

Year 2007 2008 2009 2010

Employment 12 30 44 84

CCDU


The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad organized a two days family trip to Kallar Kahar and Mangla Dam. Dr. Izhar Hussain was Incharge of the trip while Dr. Taous Khan was entrusted with organizational responsibilities. Families of all the faculty members of the department joined this memorable trip, which started on December 11, 2010 and ended on December 12, 2010.During this trip, together with enjoying the heart touching scenes of beautiful Kallar Kahar and Mangla Dam, all the faculty members and their families got the chance to visit beautiful city of Mirpur. Every body on board enjoyed this trip a lot and wished to have many more trips like this in future as well.

Family Trip of CIIT Pharmacy Faculty to Kallar Kahar and Mangla Dam

Department of Pharmacy, 11-12 December 2010

AZEEM SHAHZAD DECLAMATION CONTEST

AT CIIT ABBOTTABADCOMSATS Literary Society, 11 November 2010

COMSATS Literary Society (CLS) is one of the important societies of CIIT Abbottabad. It organizes number of events for the students in every semester and provides the best platform to students where they can express their views and share knowledge with others.

On November 11, 2010 CLS organized Azeem Shahzad Declamation Contest in which 21 students participated. The competition was tough and all participants defended well their point of view. The declamation took 3 hours and in the end the Chief Guest, Dr. Amjad Hassan shared his views on the overall declamation. After that the results were and Mr. Assad Raffaq.announced. In English, Mr. Salman Hassan, Mr.

On the same day at 3:00 PM, CLS organized Mushaira Ibrahim and Mr. Inayat ullah zeb stood 1st, 2nd and in Azeem Shahzad Hall, in which 16 students 3rd respectively. In urdu, Mr. Hassan Jamil, Ms. participated and delivered their Poems and Ghazals. Nazish and Mr. Malik Naveed took 1st, 2nd and 3rd Miss Sana Mushtaq got 1st position, Mr. Atif got 2nd positions respectively. The team trophy went to the position while Mr. Ajmal grabbed 3rd position. Almost Students of Computer Science Department i.e. all the guest teachers and judges participated in Misss Nazish and Mr. Hassan Jamil. The winners were Mushaira and presented their work. given certificates and shields and participants were

awarded certificates of participation. The judges of The whole CLS team is grateful to Director CIIT the event were Mr. Junaid, Miss. Shugufta, Miss. Abbottabad for his support and encouragement. Saadia Munir, Miss. Nusrat Naeem, Mr. Amir Naqvi Athletics

thOsama Mahmood, FA07-BTN-042, got 5 position in thAll Pakistan 400 meter hurdles race and secured 7

position in 400 meter sprint.

FootballCIIT combined team participated in HEC's All Pakistan Universities Athletics Championship. The first Football match was played against NUST on December 23, 2010. CIIT won this match. Semifinal was played against NUMIL on December 24, 2010 and CIIT again won the match. Final was played between CIIT and International Islamic University on December 25, 2010 and our team made us proud by winning the match. CIIT Football team is now included in the Best Eight Football teams of Pakistan.

Earth Sciences Students Visit Balakot for Assessmentsof October 8, 2005, Magnitude 7.6 Earthquake

Earth Sciences Program Department of Environmental SciencesthStudents of 4 semester (Fall 2010) of Earth Sciences

Program, Department of Environmental Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad carried out a 4 day field trip around Abbottabad. During the first three days, they focused on complex structures, rocks, mapping techniques working on lithology between Abbottabad and Kozagali. The last day they traversed from Nathiagali to Balakot with a concern of regional geology and Earthquake Hazard Assessment with particular reference of the October 8, 2005, magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Muzafarabad which has brought widespread destruction of life and by Dr. Ishtiaq Jadoon, Chairman, Department of property. The affects of this and previous similar Environmental Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad with earthquakes are well preserved in the rocks and participation of Tahir Abbas, Javed Iqbal, Muhammad region. The trip has helped students and teachers Murtaza, Ambreen, supporting staff and 82 students.

st rdalike to learn how useful geological studies about the Apart from the above field trip, students of 1 and 3 processes that shape out planet may be conducted semester carried out field trips around Abbottabad and how we can take social and academic and the Salt Range Mountains led by Dr. Amjid Sabir responsibilities for a better future. The trip was led and Dr. Mohammad Farooq.

SPORTS NEWSReport by: Mr. Gulzar Raza

Sports Officer

The chess tournament based on knockout matches was played from December14-16, 2010. 10 students qualified for the final round. After a tough competition, Adil Butt and Kifayatullah Khan (MS students of Mathematics Department) qualified for the final round. Adil Butt won the final game.

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1. S. S. Khan, Afsar Khan, V. U. Ahmad, A. Ahmed, U. Farooq, S. Arshad, S. Bader, A. Zahoor, I. N. Siddiqui, B. Sener and N. Erdemoglu, “Two New Disulfated Triterpenoids from Zygophyllum fabago.” Helv. Chim. Acta. 2010, 93, 2070-2074. IF: 1.435

2. A. H. Malik, S. Nasreen, Q. Mahmood, Z. M. Khan, R. Sarwar, G. Jilani, and Afsar Khan, “Strategies for Low-Cost Water Defluoridation of Drinking Water-A Review of Progress.” J. Chem. Soc. Pak. 2010, 32, 550-558. IF: 0.190

3. A. Zahoor, I. N. Siddiqui, Afsar Khan, V. U. Ahmad, A. Ahmed, Z. Hassan, S. S. Khan and S. Iqbal, “Two New Glycosides from Conyza bonariensis.” Nat. Prod. Commun. 2010, 5, 1099-1102. IF: 0.745

4. V. U. Ahmad, S. Bader, S. Arshad, A. Ahmed, Afsar Khan, S. Iqbal, M. Rasheed and R. B. Tareen, “Brauhenefloroside E and F; Acylated flavonol glycosides from Stocksia brauhica Linn. Magn. Reson”, Chem. 2010, 48, 304-308. IF: 1.612

5. Ajab, Z., L. Khatoon, S.A. Malik, Z. Majeed and H. Ajab, “Lack of polymorphism in human interleukin-2 gene among malarial patients from district Bannu, Pakistan”, Int. J. Agric. Biol., 12: 961-963, 2010

6. Naim Rashid, Qaisar Mahmood, Zulfiqar Ahmad Bhatti, Noshin Mirza. Jamil Khan, “Precipitation chelation of cyanide complexes in electroplating industry” Int. J. Environ. Res., 4(4):735-740, 2010, SCI, Impact Factor: 0.78

7. Faridullah, Arif Alam, Muhammad Irshad, Jamil Khan, Addur Rahman Khan, Hassan Sher and Kiramat Khan, “Comparative studies of different pearl millet (pennisetum americanum) varieties as affected by different yield components” EJEAFChe., 9 (9): 1524-1533, 2010

8. Wajid Rehman, Bakhtiar Muhammad, Zonera Hassan, Jamil Khan, Nadia Bashir, Abdullah Khan and Gulzar Hammed, “Synthesis, characterization and biological activities of some organotin(IV) complexes” Asian J Chem. 22 (8) 6215-6223, 2010, SCI, IF:0.3

9. Sajid Hussain Shah, Zahid Mehood Khan, Donglei Wu, Qaisar Mahmood, Zulfiqar Ahmad Bhatti, Jamil Khan, Naim Rashid and Iftikhar A. Raja, “Low temperature conversion of plastic waste into light hydrocarbons” J Hazard Mater. 179: 15-20, 2010, SCI, IF : 4.1

10. Jamil Khan, Wajid Rehman, Bakhtair Muhammad and Muhammad Danish, “Biologically active organotin(IV) schiff base complexes”, Iran J Chem Soc., 7: 495-499, 2010, SCI, IF: 2.3

11. Jamil Khan, Rehana Rashid, Naim Rashid, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhatti, Nadeem Bukhari, Muhammad Aurangzaib Khan and Qaisar Mahmood, “Assessment of selected organotin complexes against plant pathogen fungi” Sarhad J Agric., 26(1): 65-68, 2010 (HEC Recognized).

12. Afshin Maleki, Amir Hossein Mai, Royce Ehrahimi and Jamil Khan, “Evalution of Barley Straw and its Ash in Removal of Phenol from Aqueous System” World Appl Sci J., 8 (3): 369-373, 2010, SCI Index

13. Imran N. Siddiqui, Viqar U. Ahmad, Aqib Zahoor, Amir Ahmed, Saleha S. Khan, Afsar Khan and Zahid Hassan, " Two new Diarylheptanoids from Alnus nitida". Nat. Prod. Commun. 2010, 5, 1787-1788. IF: 0.745


1. Khalid Zaman, Muhammad Mushtaq Khan and Mehboob Ahmad, “Do Female Enrolment Rates cause Economic Growth in Pakistan?”, Asian Social Science,

2. Aisha Ismail, Khalid Zaman, Atif Rao, Abida Jadoon and Rabia Rustum, “The Role of Exports, Inflation and Investment on Economic Growth in Pakistan (1980-2009)”, International Journal of Economics and Research, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp: 1-9, 2010

3. Mansoor Nazir Bhatti, Imran Qureshi and Khalid Zaman, “Future of Air Travel Industry: Relation of Growth and Customer Satisfaction”, International Journal of Economics and Research, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp: 19-37, 2010

4. Usman Khurshid, Awais Rashid and Khalid Zaman, “Monetary and Fiscal Policy Integration: Evidence from Pakistan”, International Journal of Business Management and Economic Research (IJBMER), Vol. 1, issue: 1, pp: 27-33, 2010

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5. Muhammad Aamir, Waseem Ikram and Khalid Zaman, “Customer's switching in mobile phone service providers in Pakistan.”, International Journal of Business Management and Economic Research (IJBMER), Vol. 1, issue: 1, pp: 34.40.

6. Malik Fahim Bashir, Mazhar Iqbal, Khalid Zaman and Iqtidar Ali Shah, “Return on Higher Education by Different Degree Programs: A Case Study of Public Sector In Pakistan”, The Fed Uni Journal of Higher Education, Vol.5, issue3, pp: 34-47, 2010

7. Khalid Zaman, Muhammad Mushtaq Khan and Mehboob Ahmad, “Assessing the Poverty Bias of Growth in Agriculture Sector:: Evidence from Pakistan (1964 - 2006)”. International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp: 303-308

8. Muhammad Asif and Kashif Rashid, “Time Series Analysis of Real Effective Exchange Rates on Trade Balance in Pakistan”, Journal of Yasar University 2010 18(5) 3038-3044

9. Ms. Zohra Saleem, “Mobile Banking Adoption in Banking Sector Of Pakistan”, International journal of professional management ISSN 2042 2342, 2010.

10. Mr. Bilal Bin Saeed, “Subordinate's Trust in the Supervisor and its Impact on Organizational Effectiveness”, The Romanian Economic Journal, 2010

Department of Environmental Sciences

1. Shahzadi, Irum., A. Hassan, Ummara W. Khan and Mohammad Maroof Shah, “Evaluating biological activities of the seed extracts from Tagetes minuta L found in northern Pakistan”. J. Med. Plant. Res. 4(20): 2108-2112, 2010, IF 0.590

2. Shah, M. M., S. W. Hassan, I. Shahzadi, and K. Maqbool, “Comparisons of DNA marker-based genetic diversity with phenotypic estimates using maize genotypes”, Genet. Mol. Res. 0.844

3. Mirza, Nosheen., Qaisar Mahmood and Arshid Pervez, Raza Ahmad, Mohammad M.Shah and M.Rashid Azam, “Phytoremediation potential of Arundo donax in Arsenic contaminated synthetic wastewater”, Bioresource Technology. 101(15): 5815-5819, 2010, IF 4.850

4. Shahzadi, Irum.,R. Ahmad, A. Hassan, and M. M. Shah, “Optimization of DNA extraction from seeds and fresh leaf tissues of wild marigold (Tagetes minuta) for PCR analysis”, Genet. Mol. Res. IF 0.844

5. Awais, M., A. Pervez, A. Yaqub and M. M. Shah, “Production of Antimicrobial Metabolites by Bacillus subtilis immobilized in Polyacrylamide Gel”, Pakistan J. Zool., vol. 42(3): 267-271, 2010, IF 0.20

6. Iqbal M., Kiramat Khan, H. Rahman, I.F. Khalil, H.sher and Jehan Bakht, “Heterosis for Morphological Traits in Sub-tropical Maize. Maydica”, 55(2010): 41-48. (IF: 0.789)

7. Iqbal M., Kiramat Khan, Hidayat-ur-Rahman, Hassan Sher, “Detection of Epistatsis in Physiological Traits of Maize (Zea mays L.) from generation means analysis”, Maydica 55(2010): 33-39. (IF: 0.789)

8. Sher H., Kiramat Khan and Hazrat Sher, “Constraints and Opportunities for Sustainable Livelihoods and cash income generation from Non Timber Forest Products in the Mountains of northern parts of Pakistan”, Acta Botanica Yunnanica 32 (2): 167-176, 2010, (IF: 1.403)

9. Faridullah, Alam A, Irshad M, Khan J, Khan AR, Sher H, and K Khan, “Comparative studies of different Pearl Millet (Pennisetum americanum) varieties as affected by different yield components”, EJEAFChe. 9(9): 1524-1533, 2010, ISI Index Journal

10. Jadoon, I. A. K, “Tectonic Map of Part of Mari-Bugti Agency, Sulaiman Lobe Pakistan:1:250000”, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, 2010.

11. Jadoon, I. A. K., “Geometry of foreland structures in the Himalayas and the Zagros: Earth Sciences Pakistan”, New Developments, Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences, v 43. P. 37.

12. Baig, M. S., Yeats, R. S., Pervez, S., Jadoon, I. A. K., and others, “Avtive tectonics, October 8' 2005 earthquake deformation, active uplift, scarp morphology, and seismic geohazards zonation, Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis, Northwest Himalayas, Pakistan”, Earth Sciences Pakistan 2010, New Developments, Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences, v 43. P. 17-21.

13. Jadoon, I. A. K., “Foreland mountain fronts, Pakistan: tectonic origin and sedimentation. International Planning Workshop on “Watershed Management and Land Rehabilitation, NW Frontier Region, Pakistan”.


1. Imdad Khan, Y. I. Nechayev, K. Ghanem and P.S. Hall, “BAN-BAN Interference Rejection with Multiple Antennas at the Receiver”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 58, No. 3, March 2010.

2. Imdad Khan, Y. I. Nechayev and P.S. Hall, “On-body Diversity Channel Characterization”, IEEE Transactions on

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9 (1): 386-393, 2010,

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Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 58, No. 2, February 2010, pp. 573-5803. Imdad Khan and P.S. Hall, “Experimental Evaluation of MIMO Capacity and Correlation for Body-Centric

Wireless Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 58, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 195-202.

4. A.A. Serra, A. R. Guraliuc, P. Nepa, G. Manara, I. Khan and P. S. Hall, “Dual-Polarization and Dual-Pattern Planar Antenna for Diversity in Body-Centric Communications”, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 2010, pp. 106-112.

5. Mazhar Ali, “Distillability sudden death in qutritqutrit systems under amplitude damping”, 2010 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 43 045504 (7pp)

6. I. Ahmed and A. Rashid, “Study of Geothermal Energy Resources of Pakistan for Electric Power Generation”, 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, Energy Sources, Part A, 32:826838.

7. Mazhar Ali, “Distillability sudden death in qutrit-qutrit systems under global and multilocal dephasing”, Physical Review A 81, 042303 (2010).]

8. Mazhar Ali, A. R. P. Rau and G. Alber, “Quantum discord for two-qubit X-states”, Physical Review A 81, 042105 (2010).

9. Dr. Laiq, Sidra Mumtaz and Kamran Javed, “Generators Maintenance Schedule for WAPDA System using Meta-heuristic Paradigms”, Australian journal applied sciences.(AJBAS). 4(7): 1656-1667, 2010 ISSN 1991-8178

10. Dr. Laiq, Sidra Mumtaz and Kamran Javed, “ANN Based Short Term Load Forecasting Paradigms for WAPDA Pakistan”, Australian journal applied sciences. 4(5): 932-947, 2010.

11. Sifat Shah, A. Rashid, M.K.L Bhatti, Shahid Khattak and Laiq Khan, “Crisis of Electrical Energy in Pakistan and Future guide line for policy makers”, Canadian Journal on Electrical and Electronics Engineering Vol. 1, No.3, April 2010.

12. Tauseef Ali, Shahid Khattak and Intaek Kim, “Automatic Red-Eye Effect Removal using Combined Intensity and Color Information”, Imaging Science Journal 2010.

Department of Computer Science

1. Muhammad Junaid, Sajjad A. Madani and Osman Khalid, “An Indigenous Solution for SYN Flooding”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, USA (IJCSIS). Volume 8, Issue 8, 2010.

2. Muhammad Junaid, Sajjad A. Madani and Osman Khalid, “Proposed Solution for SYN Flooding”, International Journal of Engineering Sciences (IJENS), Singapore. Volume 10, Issue 6, 2010.

3. Sajjad A. Madani and Jawad Kazmi, Stefan Mahlknecht, “Wireless Sensor Networks: Modelling and Simulation”, Discrete Event Simulations, Aitor Goti (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-115-2, Sciyo.

Department of Mathematics

1. Madad Khan, Tauseef Asif and Faisal, “Intra-regular left almost semigroups characterized by their Anti fuzzy ideals”, Journal of Mathematics Research, Vol. 2, No. 4; (2010), 100-110.

2. Madad Khan and Tauseef Asif, “Characterizations of regular left almost semigroups by their fuzzy ideals”, Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, vol. 2, issue 2 (2010), 59-75.

Department of Pharmacy

1. Muhammad Tayyab Ansari, Muhammad Haneef and Ghulam Murtaza, “Solid Dispersions of Artemisinin in Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone and Polyethylene Glycol.”, Adv Clin Exp Med, 19(6), 19, (2010), IF: 0.94

2. Abdullah Khan, A. K. Azad, Izhar Hussain and Fahim Uddin, “Synthesis, Characterization and Conductivity Studies of Tetraphenylstebunium Halides and Trihalides”, Asian Journal of Chemistry, 22(5), 3583 3590, (2010), IF: 0.213

3. Mannan A, Ahmed I, Arshad W, Asim MF, Qureshi RA, Hussain I and Mirza B, Survey of artemisinin production by diverse Artemisia species in northern Pakistan. Malaria Journal. 9(310): 1-9, 2010, IF:3.00

4. Hussain A, Mannan A, Zubair H and Mirza B, “Purification and characterization of alkaline proteases from Aspergillus terreus”, Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan, 32(4): 497-504, IF:0.190

5. Mannan A, Liu C, Arsenault PR, Towler MJ, Vail DR, Lorence A and Weathers PJ, “DMSO triggers the generation of ROS leading to an increase in artemisinin and dihydroartemisinic acid in Artemisia annua shoot cultures”, Plant Cell Rep., 29: 143-152, 2010, IF: 2.301

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The present investigation reports the concentrations concentration of total chromium Cr (III) and Cr (VI) in of total chromium and its species i.e. chromium [Cr wastewater, drinking water and soil was found to be in (III) and Cr (VI)] accessed in soil, drinking water and range of (Cr) 16.12-36.83 mg/L, 1.0483-3. 1824 mg/L effluents of tanneries distributed in ten clusters of and 3.45~11.43 mg/kg [Cr (III) 0.97-13.25 mg/L, 0-Sialkot District, Pakistan. 120 samples consisting of 1.05 and 1.56-9.80 mg/kg and Cr (VI) 11.69-28.61 40 samples each of topsoil, drinking water and ppm, 0.83-5.96 ppm and 2.12-11.85 ppm respectively. composite wastewater were collected from the The concentration of chromium contents are above the selected tannery clusters. The chelation extraction National Environmental Standard of Pakistan. It was and digestion method followed by atomic absorption found that pH above 6 leads to higher concentration of spectrometer were used to analyze Cr (VI) and total Cr (VI) in the samples due to oxidation behavior. The Cr respectively in soil, wastewater and drinking water study recommends the treatment of wastewater at 427 nm and 549 nm respectively. The before being discharged.

Research Abstracts

From the aerial parts of Zygophyllum fabago two new glucopyranoside (2) with the molecular formulae sodium salts of sulfated glycoside derivatives of C H O NaS and C H O NaS , respectively. The 30 47 10 2 36 59 15 2

ursolic acid, along with two known quinovic acid structures of known compounds were found as 3-O-glycosides were isolated. [â-D-2-O-sulphonyl-quinovopyranosyl] quinovic acid-The structures of the new compounds were 28-O-[â-D-glucopyranosyl]-ester (3) and quinovic acid determined as mono sodium salt of 23,30- 3 - O - [ â - D - g l u c o p y ra n o s i d e ] - 2 8 - O - [ â - D -dihydrours-20(21)-en-28-al-3â,23-di-O-sulfate (1) glucopyranosyl]-ester (4). The structures of all these and mono sodium salt of 23,28,30- trihydrours- compounds were determined using 1D- and 2D-NMR 20(21) -ene-3â ,23-d i -O-su l fa te -30-O-â-D- spectroscopic techniques.

Toxic Chromium from Tanneries Pollute Water Resources and Soils of Sialkot (Pakistan)

Uzaira Rafique, Aisha Ashraf, Abida Kalsoom Khan, Sadia Nasreen, Rehana Rashid and Qaisar Mahmood

Two New Disulfated Triterpenoids from Zygophyllum fabago

S. S. Khan, Afsar Khan, V. U. Ahmad, A. Ahmed, U. Farooq, S. Arshad, S. Bader, A. Zahoor, I. N. Siddiqui, B. Sener and N. Erdemoglu

Studies on Conyza bonariensis (L.) Cronq. led to the 2 is an alkyl glycoside. Their structures were elucidated isolation of two new glycosides trivially named as through mass spectrometric, and 1D- and 2D-NMR erigeside E and F (12), along with two new source spectroscopic techniques, including 1H NMR, 13C compounds; benzyl-?-D-glucopyranoside (3) and 2- NMR, HMQC, HSQC and HMBC.phenylethyl-??-D-glucopyranoside (4). Compounds 1, 3, and 4 are aromatic glycosides, while compound

Two New Glycosides from Conyza bonariensis

A. Zahoor, I. N. Siddiqui, Afsar Khan, V. U. Ahmad, A. Ahmed, Z. Hassan,S. S. Khan and S. Iqbal


Published Papers

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There has been much discussion on the relationship In order to find the relationship between the two between education and economic growth. A few variables set, a time series Co-integration and studies have examined the increasing trend of female Granger Causality Tests have been employed enrolment in educational institutions and economic separately. Secondary data pertaining to Pakistan growth. The objective of this paper is to empirically from 1966 - 2008 has been used for analysis. The investigate four alternatives but equally plausible empirical results moderately support the hypotheses. These are: conventional view that GDP has significant long-i) GDP cause female enrolment proxies (the run casual effect on the female enrolment proxies

conventional view), in Pakistan. The present study supports the ii) Female enrolment proxies cause GDP, unidirectional causality relationship between the iii) There is a bi-directional causality between the GDP and female enrolment in the specific context

two variables and of Pakistan. Iv) Both variables are causality independent.

Do Female Enrolment Rates Cause Economic Growth in Pakistan? Khalid Zaman, Muhammad Mushtaq Khan and Mehboob Ahmad

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth increases by almost 0.179 percent, exports, inflation, investment and economic growth while inflation has a negative impact on economic for Pakistan. A long-run relationship between the growth by almost 0.032 percent. This analysis variables has been found by applying Johansen's Co- demonstrates that, in the long-run, exports led integration Technique after finding the series I(1). growth hypothesis does not hold in Pakistan, as The Error Correction Model (ECM) has been applied to exports are reported as insignificant factor to advance streamline the short-run and long run impacts of the economic growth. The ECM results indicate the variables on economic growth. In general, the results convergence of the model and it's implying that about revealed that exports and investment both have a 68% adjustments take place every year. This analysis significant positive impact on economic growth. will help decision makers to develop strategies and However, inflation has a significant negative impact policies to accelerate economic growth, exports and on economic growth in the short-run. In the long-run, investment.if there is one percent increase in the total investment,

The Role of Exports, Inflation and Investment on Economic

Growth in Pakistan (1980-2009)Aisha Ismail, Khalid Zaman, Atif Rao, Abida Jadoon and Rabia Rustum


Advance recycling through pyrolytic technology has and 0.6%, respectively, at 275 ? C with non-catalytic the potential of being applied to the management of process. Using catalyst the average yields of pyrolytic plastic waste (PW). For this purpose 1 l volume, oil, pyrogas, wax and residue (char) of 50 g of PW was energy ef?cient batch reactor was manufactured 47.98, 35.43, 16.09 and 0.50%, respectively, at locally and tested for pyrolysis of waste plastic. The operating temperature of 250 ? C. The designed feedstock for reactor was 50 g waste polyethylene. reactor could work at low temperature in the absence The average yield of the pyrolytic oil, wax, pyrogas of a catalyst to obtain similar products as for a catalytic and char from pyrolysis of PW were 48.6, 40.7, 10.1 process.

Low temperature conversion of plastic waste into light hydrocarbonsSajid Hussain Shah, Zahid Mehood Khan, Donglei Wu, Qaisar Mahmood,

Zulfiqar Ahmad Bhatti, Jamil Khan, Naim Rashid and Iftikhar A. Raja

Imran N. Siddiqui, Viqar U. Ahmad, Aqib Zahoor, Amir Ahmed, Saleha S. Khan, Afsar Khan and Zahid Hassan,

“ Two new Diarylheptanoids from Alnus nitida".

Two new diarylheptanoids, trivially named nitidone A based primarily on 2D-NMR spectroscopic techniques and nitidone B have been isolated from Alnus nitida. and by comparison with literature data. The structure elucidation of the compounds was

Two new acylated flavonol glycosides, 3-O-{[2-O-â- r h a m n o p y r a n o s y l - k a e m p f e r o l 7 - O - á - L-D-glucopyranosyl]-3-[O-â-D-glucopyranosyl]-4-[(6- r h a m n o p y ra n o s i d e , t r i v i a l l y n a m e d a s O-p-coumaroyl)-O-â-D-glucopyranosyl]}-á-L- brauhenefloroside E (1) and F (2), respectively, were r h a m n o p y r a n o s y l - k a e m p f e r o l 7 - O - á - L- isolated from the fruits of Stocksia brauhica and their rhamnopyranoside and 3-O-{2-[(6-O-p-coumaroyl)- structures were elucidated using spectroscopic O-â-Dglucopyranosyl]-3-[O-â-D-glucopyranosyl]-4- methods, including 2DNMRexperiments.[(6-O-p-coumaroyl)-O-â-D-glucopyranosyl]}-á-L-

Brauhenefloroside E and F; Acylated flavonol glycosides from Stocksia brauhica Linn

V. U. Ahmad, S. Bader, S. Arshad, A. Ahmed, Afsar Khan,S. Iqbal, M. Rasheed and R. B. Tareen

Organotin(IV) complexes with the general formulae the comparison of experimental chemical shifts with R3 SnL (R: alkyl and L: Schiff base) have been those calculated data. The novel complexes and the prepared and the bonding in these complexes were ligand, soluble in dimethyl sulphoxide have been studied through various spectral techniques like IR, screened against various types of bacteria for their 1H and 13C NMR. The alkyl and phenyl groups antibacterial activity.attached to the tin(IV) atom have been assigned by

Organotin(IV) complexes with the general formulae the literature which were found to coincide very well R 3 ML [R: alkyl (Et, Ph and Bz), M: Sn and L: 1,3- with the assigned structures. The ligands and their b i s (2 -hydroxybenzy l idene) th iourea were tin(IV) complexes were screened in vitro for their synthesized. The newly synthesized schiff base and antibacterial activities. It was found that they its complexes were characterized by elemental possessed significant antibacterial activity and the analysis, melting point, molecular weight effect of Ph 3 SnL was possibly superior to those of Et 3 determination, IR and NMR [1H, 13C and 119 Sn] SnL, Bz 3 SnL and ligand. These findings add new spectral methods. In the light these techniques, a insights onto the synthesis of antibacterial drugs as the tetrahedral geometry around the tin atom is synthesized compounds showed promising proposed for the synthesized complexes. The antimicrobial activity.experimental data have been compared with those in

Biologically active organotin(IV) schiff base complexes

Jamil Khan, Wajid Rehman, Bakhtair Muhammad and Muhammad Danish

Assessment of selected organotin complexes against plant pathogen fungi

Jamil Khan, Rehana Rashid, Naim Rashid, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhatti, Nadeem Bukhari, Muhammad Aurangzaib Khan and Qaisar Mahmood

Organotin complexes were screened extensively in base<Et 3 SnL<Bz 3 SnL<Ph 3 SnL. The results vitro against a number of plant pathogens, which are provided evidence that the studied complexes have a responsible for various diseases in plants. Antifungal potential to be used as drugs and these would further activity was determined in 2007 by Hanging drop enable us to evaluate their utility in agriculture. The method (in C. glocosporiodes, A. brassicicola and C. present results will add new information to synthesize capsic) and found to be very much active in this antifungal drugs as the synthesized compounds respect. The order of increasing activities is schiff showed promising antifungal activity.

Synthesis, Characterization and Biological Activities of Some Organotin(IV) Complexes

Wajid Rehman, Bakhtiar Muhammad, Zonera Hassan, Jamil Khan, Nadia Bashir, Abdullah Khan and Gulzar Hammed


The Maastrichtian Pab Formation in the southern part Dissolution and alteration of feldspar and volcanic lithic of Pakistan is composed of fine to very coarse- fragments and pressure solution were the main grained texturally mature quartz arenite and sources of quartz cements. Mechanical compaction subordinate sublitharenite varieties. The sandstones and authigenic cements like calcite, quartz and iron have undergone intense and complex diagenetic oxide/hydroxide reduced the primary porosity, episodes due to burial and uplift. Diagenetic whereas dissolution of clastic grains and cements has modifications were dependent mainly on the clastic produced secondary porosity. Chlorite coatings on composition of sandstone, burial depth and thrust clastic grains have prevented quartz cementation. tectonics. Diagenetic events identified include Coarse-grained, thick bedded packages of compaction, precipitation of calcite, quartz, clay fluviodeltaic, shelf delta lobe and submarine channels minerals and iron oxide/hydroxide, dissolution and facies have higher average porosity than fine-grained, alteration of unstable clastic grains as feldspar and thin bedded and bioturbated sandstone of deeper shelf volcaniclithic fragments as well as tectonically and abyssal plain environments and these facies are induced grain fracturing. The unstable clastic grains concluded to be possible future hydrocarbon like feldspar and lithic volcanic fragments suffered prospects.considerable alteration to kaolinite and chlorite.

This paper attempts to estimate the impact of the effect of economic growth and income inequality economic growth and income inequality on poverty in on urban poverty over a 10 year period. Estimated the specific context of urban Pakistan. The study first results are quite robust not only in terms of statistical attempts to investigate whether there is a long-run powers, but also in terms of economic instinct. The relationship between urban poverty and economic results suggest following conclusions: Poverty and growth in Pakistan using a Johansen co-integration growth are non-stationary series; they are co-framework and then proceeds to estimate the long- integrated and poverty retention ratio is 0.704 (DOLS). run and short-run effects of economic growth and Post reform periods are found which influence poverty income inequality on poverty. Robust elasticity negatively. This means that steady period fall down estimates of urban poverty for Pakistan are derived urban poverty. The results imply that urban poverty in using consistent time series data from 1964-2006. Pakistan has increased, reflecting the deprived The study also uses a powerful modeling procedure performance of federal policies regarding pro-poor i.e., Dynamic OLS (DOLS) estimators in co-integrated reforms in Pakistan. Additionally, the study has regression models. In addition, impulse response understandable practical implications for estimating function (IRF) and variance decomposition the long and short-run elasticities in poverty function in techniques are used for forecasting, which examine general, and in an open variety of fields

The Study of Urban Poverty in Pakistan: Evidence from Co-integrated Regression (1964-2006)

Khalid Zaman and Dr. Kashif Rashid

The effects of diagenesis on the reservoir characters in sandstones of the Late Cretaceous Pab Formation, Kirthar Fold Belt, southern Pakistan

Muhammad Umar, Henrik Friis, Abdul Salam Khan,

Akhtar Muhammad Kassi and Aimal Khan Kasi

years) is anti-poor. The results of impulse response error shock to poverty causes agriculture income to analysis indicate that one standard error shock to deteriorate in the next 10 years. Index Terms - Rural agricultural growth has negative impact on rural Household Income, Poverty, Income Inequality, poverty, while one shock in income inequality causes Poverty Bias of Growth, Impulse Response function, rural poverty to fall up to next 10 years. At last, one Agriculture, Pakistan.


The present research paper investigates the airline their effective marketing strategies. However, it must industry's present and future states in relation to be noted that major airlines' as well as low-cost growth and consumer satisfaction. The approach of carriers' future is unpredictable and many see both of investigation is secondary data analysis. The sample them in danger because of increasing oil prices. of the data is collected from various sources from Overall, the growth chances for low-cost carriers are official websites to books and scholarly journals. The much higher in both U.S. and European air travel U.S. and European airlines are included in the data markets and beyond like Africa, Asia Pacific, and Middle for analysis because of their history and expansion East. It is the major airlines from both the settings that globally. It was found in the research that both the are seen to be facing critical challenges in the recent U.S. and European major airlines have constantly future for which supply and demand is one single area reported either losses or marginal profits in recent that must be taken into serious consideration by these history. However, on the other hand, low-cost carriers airlines because it is this area that has been historically have mushroomed in both the markets because of overlooked by major airlines.

Customer's loyalty leads to long-run profitability of an criteria is mentioned in the section 3. Results reveal organization, which is a base for retaining the loyal that Ufone has a maximum market share of 48.3%, customers. Marketing strategies pertaining to Telenor has 17.1% and Zong has 14%. Mobilink and customer loyalty/satisfaction are examined for five Warid have a market share of 5.8% and 8.9% major mobile services providers in Pakistan. 292 respectively. Customer satisfaction ultimately results in respondents were randomly selected. The inclusion customer retention.

Future of Air Travel Industry: Relation of Growth and Customer Satisfaction

Mansoor Nazir Bhatti, Imran Qureshi and Khalid Zaman

Customers' Switching in Mobile Phone Service Providers in Pakistan

Muhammad Aamir, Waseem Ikram and Khalid Zaman

Education is a key factor for the growth of human calculating per capita educational expenditure. This capital. Human capital is directly related to economic data has been derived from Pakistan Social and Living growth and development of a country. This paper Standard Measurement Survey (2004-05). The data is looks at the economic returns and cost to different analyzed using Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal fields of study in Pakistan. To assess the return to Rate of Return (IRR). The result reveals that the rate of education, two main degree programs i.e. Master's return calculated for master's degree is 26.52% which and professional bachelor's are taken into account. is comparatively more than professional bachelor's Benefits to the individual have been calculated using degree as it is calculated as 23.83%. The results the government pay scale. Household income data presented in this study reinforce the importance to and individual expenditure has been used for government, academic and policy makers.

Estimating the Economic Return and Cost to Different Degree Programs:A Case Study of Public Sector in Pakistan

Malik Fahim Bashir, Mazhar Iqbal, Khalid Zaman and Iqtidar Ali Shah

Assessing the Poverty Bias of Growth in Agriculture Sector: Evidence from Pakistan

Khalid Zaman, Muhammad Mushtaq Khan and Mehboob Ahmad

The aim of this study is to examine the potential the phenomena of Poverty Bias of Growth (PBG) as impact of agriculture growth on the poors in Pakistan proposed by McCulloch and Baulch (2000) in the during 1964-2006. This research is extended within literature. The cumulative outcome of four decades (43


Although different modeling techniques have been battlefield awareness, and security and surveillance proposed during the last 300 years, the differential Cerpa et al. (2001). As discussed earlier, modeling and equation formalism proposed by Newton and Leibniz simulation is a mean to verify the working and to has been the tool of choice for modeling and problem measure the effectiveness of the different techniques solving Taylor (1996);Wainer (2009). Differential proposed for WSNs. Analytical modeling provides quick equations provide a formal mathematical method insight for the techniques developed for WSNs but fail (sometimes also called an analytical method) for to give realistic results because of WSN specific studying the entity of interest. Computational constraints like limited energy and sheer number of methods based on differential equations could not be sensor nodes Chen et al. (2006). Real world easily applied in studying human-made dynamic implementation and test beds are the most accurate systems (e.g., traffic controllers, robotic arms, methods to verify the concepts but are restricted by automated factories, production plants, computer costs, effort, and time factors as well as repeating networks and VLSI circuits). These systems are environmental conditions is also not possible Zeigler usually referred to as discrete event systems because (1976). Simulations provide a good approximation to their states do not change continuously but, rather, verify different schemes and applications developed because of the occurrence of events. This makes for WSNs at low cost and in less time. To have credible them asynchronous, inherently concurrent, and results through simulation, the choice of models and highly nonlinear, rendering their modeling and the simulation environment is important. There is simulation different from that used in traditional always a tradeoff between credible simulation results approaches. In order to improve the model definition and the time required to get these simulation results. for this class of systems, a number of techniques The results always depend upon the level of were introduced, including Petri Nets, Finite State abstraction of the models. The more detailed is the Machines, min-max algebra, Timed Automata, etc. model, the better the accuracy of results but higher the Banks & Nicol. (2005); Cassandras (1993); Cellier & amount of time required for simulation. The models Kofman. (2006); Fishwick (1995); Law & Kelton used for simulation can have a significant impact on (2000); Toffoli & Margolus. (1987). Wireless Sensor the overall simulation study. A brief overview of the Network (WSN) is a discrete event system which models available for different modules of sensor consists of a network of sensor nodes equipped with network simulation study in addition to the general-sensing, computing, power, and communication purpose simulation frameworks and tools that can be modules to monitor certain phenomenon such as used to study WSNs have been discussed. Such tools environmental data or object tracking Zhao & Guibas include NS-2, OMNeT ++, SenSim, NesCT, GlomoSim, (2004). Emerging applications of wireless sensor OPNET Modeler, SENSE, Ptolemy II, VisualSense and J-networks are composed of asset and warehouse Sim. Additionally, some WSNs specific simulators management, automotive, home and building frameworks/emulators are also covered including automation, civil infrastructure monitoring, TOSSIM, EmStar, ATEMU and PAWiS.healthcare, industrial process control, military

Wireless Sensor Networks: Modelling and Simulation

Sajjad A. Madani, Jawad Kazmi and Stefan Mahlknecht

Usually the share price is a continuous function of is no perfect hedging of the option. It is possible to time, but some rare events, release of an unexpected construct approximation methods for the option value economic figure, major political changes or even a function and using these approximations to construct natural disaster in a major economy, can lead to hedging strategies, the value process of which bursque variations in prices. In such a situation there uniformly approximate the perfect hedging portfolio.

Jumps in Financial Markets and Tradings

Dr. Sultan Hussain

Department of Mathematics

The capacity of a terrestrial Zn/Cd hyper accumulator adsorption accounted for 67.74%, 24.03%, 66.53% Sedum alfredii Hance to purify water polluted by Zn, and 70.77% of the total respective Zn, Cd, Cu and Pb, Cd, Cu and Pb along with their removal pathway was removal by S. alfredii. Addition of heavy metals investigated. S. alfredii Hance was grown in synthetic stimulated the growth of S. alfredii over the control wastewater in 2.5-L capacity containers (without any addition of heavy metals) that might contaminated with (mgL-1) 19.20 Zn, 11.24 Cd, 3.27 cause enhanced metals removal from wastewater. Cu and 0.53 Pb, respectively. The supplied metal These results indicated promising potential of S. concentrations were comparable with those in alfredii for remediation of a mixture of heavy metals plating industry wastewater. After a growth period of containing wastewater. Rhizospheric microorganisms, 7 d', the average removal rates for Zn, Cd, Cu and Pb, root exudates and metal adsorption on the root surface were 94.07%, 82.33%, 96.03% and 69.61% of S. alfredii might be possible contributors in respectively. Both root surface adsorption and phytoremediation of Zn, Cu and Pb from wastewater.absorption contributed to metal uptake. Root surface

The potential of Sedum alfredii Hance for the biosorption of some metals from synthetic wastewater

Ji Bing Xiong, Qaisar Mahmood and Min Yue

The fine grained resin ZGSPC106 was used to adsorb evaluation based on Langmuir isotherm gave the dimethylamine (DMA) from aqueous solution in the maximal static saturated adsorption capacity of 138.89 present research. Batch experiments were mg/g at 293 K. Various thermodynamic parameters performed to examine the effects of initial pH of such as free energy, enthalpy and entropy showed that solution and agitation time on the adsorption the adsorption was spontaneous, endothermic and process. The thermodynamics and kinetics of feasible. DMA adsorption on ZGSPC106 fitted well to adsorption was also analyzed. The maximum the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. Furthermore, adsorption was found at natural pH of DMA solution the adsorption mechanism was discussed by Fourier and equilibrium could be attained within 12 min. The transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) analysis.equilibrium adsorption data were conformed satisfactorily to the Langmuir equation. The

Kinetics and equilibrium adsorption studies of dimethylamine (DMA) onto ion-exchange resin

SYN flooding is one of the most difficult problems indigenous solution is suggested on small scale to now a days to almost every application especially prevent the SYN flooding in an organization by security based. Disrupting the normal operation of a checking the outgoing connection attempts from the server and engaging it to some other tasks makes it LAN to the server. The proposed solution prevents the all time busy server with no useful information suspicious attempts of the attacker by disallowing him processed. Researchers have proposed many to resend the fake packets.solutions to address this problem. In this work, an

An Indigenous Solution for SYN Flooding

Muhammad Junaid, Sajjad A. Madani and Osman Khalid

Department of Computer Science

Qinhai Hu, Yuanyuan Meng, Tongxi Sun, Qaisar Mahmood, Donglei Wu, Jianhang Zhu and George Lu


This paper presents polarization diversity polarized antennas are used as a transmitter in the performance for on-body communication channels. measurements and diversity gains were calculated. To do the investigation, a new dual-polarized Reasonable diversity gains, around 5 dB, were antenna was des igned and fabr icated. achieved for the dynamic on-body channels. Static Measurements were carried out in a laboratory channels show effectively no improvement.environment. Both vertically and horizontally

Polarization Diversity Performance for on-Body Communication Applications

L. Akhoondzadeh-Asl, I. Khan and P. S. Hall

The application of multiple-input multiple-output capacity increase due to use of MIMO was still (MIMO) in body-area networks (BAN) is considered in observed thus demonstrating the feasibility of using the paper. The correlations between MIMO sub- MIMO in BAN communications. A simple BAN-to-BAN channels and the MIMO channel capacity are interference rejection method which makes use of investigated for three on-body channels when interrupted transmission is also proposed in the paper, random movements are performed in an indoor and is shown to produce interference rejection gains environment. Some of the MIMO sub-channels were significantly higher than those produced by two found to be correlated. Nevertheless, a significant conventional interference rejection methods.

Multiple Antenna Systems for Increasing On-Body Channel Capacity and Reducing BAN-to- BAN Interference

Imdad Khan, Peter S. Hall, Yuriy I. Nechayev and Lida Akhoondzadeh-Asl

In this paper, a review of recent research in fading usually follows a log-normal, or gamma characterizing on-body wireless channels is distribution. The rates of fading expressed in terms of presented. Path gain random variations caused by level crossing rate and average fade duration have also body movements in various environments have been been obtained. The effect of these findings on the investigated at several frequencies, including 2.45 system design parameters, such as link reliability, fade GHz and 5.8 GHz. In a scattering environment, such margin, and required transmitted power, is discussed. as an office, the fading of on-body channels was Performance of different types of antennas which can found to undergo a combination of two types of be used in WBAN devices has been evaluated as well. It variation, namely, short-term and long-term is found that antenna diversity can be successfully variations. The short-term variation is due to applied in order to mitigate the effects of channel multipath fading and can be described by either fading and interference. Rician or Nakagami distribution, and the long-term

Wireless Channels and Antennas for Body-Area Networks

Yuriy I Nechayev, Peter S Hall, Imdad Khan and Costas C Constantinou

channel. OC gives around 35 dB interference handle on the interference rejection gain and gives rejection gain for belt-wrist and belt-head channels. better rejection than the two conventional algorithms The WH solution gives the worst performance for all with proper interval selection.the channels. The proposed algorithm gives a flexible

Performance Evaluation of Photoreceivers in WDM Passive Optical Networks is enclosed

The telecommunication future is envisioned as a enhance network reach and data carrying capabilities modular ubiquitous network, supporting multitude of to generate revenues by deploying passive optical communications over a single platform. Optical networks in the access network segment. This paper networks are found to be the most feasible for this evaluates and compares performance gains achieved purpose. Network operators need valid solutions to by using Positive-Intrinsic-Negative (PIN) and

Umair Ibrahim

A novel dual-polarisation/dual-pattern stripline-fed polarisation/pattern diversity scheme in body-centric annular-ring slot antenna for body-centric communications. Two prototypes have been fabricated communication systems working in the IEEE 802.11a and characterised. The design criteria are described frequency band at 5.7255.825 GHz is presented. A and measurements of return loss, isolation between stripline feeding technique has been implemented in ports, principal plane radiation patterns and radiation order to reduce the back radiation level and make the efficiency are shown. A measurement campaign has antenna suitable for wearable communication also been carried out to evaluate the diversity scheme systems. The planar antenna has been designed to performance.provide capabilities for implementation of a


Dual-polarisation and dual-pattern planar antenna for diversity in body-centric communications

A.A. Serra A.R. Guraliuc P. Nepa G. Manara I. Khan and P.S. Hall

Using multiple antennas at the transmitter and channels. The improvement offered by 2x 2 MIMO over receiver has shown a remarkable scope for capacity the conventional single-input single-output link for the increase for indoor wireless mobile and PAN on-body channels has been discussed. The variation of communications and is here extended to on-body capacity with Rician ??-factor is shown and the MIMO channels. The capacity and multiple-input multiple- channel spatial correlation matrices are presented. The output (MIMO) channel correlation analysis has been effect of correlation on the channel capacity is performed at 2.45 GHz frequency using planar discussed.Inverted-F antennas (PIFA) for three on-body

Experimental Evaluation of MIMO Capacity and Correlation for Narrowband Body-Centric Wireless Channels

Imdad Khan and Peter S. Hall

Statistical analysis of the on-body diversity combined average best fit parameters are presented for short-and branch signals are presented. The distribution of term and long-term fading envelopes of the branch short-term fading envelopes of the branch and and combined signals. The Doppler spectra are also combined signals show that the fading environment presented. Three different types of antennas were for the on-body channels is Rician. The longterm used and two on-body channels were characterized at fading best fits the Log-Normal distribution. The 2.45, 5.8, and 10 Ghz.

On-Body Diversity Channel Characterization

Imdad Khan, Yuriy I. Nechayev and Peter S. Hall

Rejection of interference from a nearby body area algorithms. Three on-body channels are investigated network (BAN) becomes significant in BAN by real time measurements of the desired and applications, where a number of BANs are operating interference signals in an indoor environment with the in the near vicinity of each other. Two interference antennas mounted on two human subjects walking rejection combining (IRC) techniques, optimum around each other. The output signal to interference combining (OC) and Weiner-Hopf (WH) solution, are plus noise ratio improvement achieved with each applied to the on-body wireless communication algorithm is presented for the three channels and the channels, and a more robust interference rejection dependence of the interference rejection gain on the technique, applicable to on-body channels, is average desired signal to interference ratio has been proposed and compared to the conventional IRC shown along with the covariance matrices for each

BAN-BAN Interference Rejection With Multiple Antennas at the Receiver

Imdad Khan, Yuriy I. Nechayev, Khalida Ghanem and Peter S. Hall


Sheep and goats occupy an important position in the while retaining the other important traits desired in hilly areas of NWFP. There is a huge gap between the the flock. It can be transferred into any breed of demand and supply of sheep products which can be sheep by simple Mendelian inheritance. The overcome by excelling the reproductive performance presence of FecB gene among the sheep population of sheep and adopting better management practices. in Hazara division can open new venues of sheep The Booroola Fecundity gene (FecB), discovered in production. The success in finding a FecB gene Booroola Merino species for the first time in Australia, carrier sheep breed in Hazara division will obviously offers new opportunities to progressive sheep open the opportunities to boost the sheep production farmers and shepherds. It allows the progressive in the area.sheep farmers to create a high level of prolificacy

Determination of FecB Gene in Sheep Breeds of Hazara Division

Ibrarul-HussainSupervisor: Dr. Amjad Hassan

Determining the relationship between phytic acid content and agronomic traits in Pakistani wheat germ plasm

Asma KhanSupervisor: Dr. Muhammad Maroof Shah

Phytic acid is the principal storage form of plasm. In the proposed research our aim is to identify phosphorous in many plant tissues, especially bran phytic acid concentration in Pakistani wheat varieties and seeds. It is considered as anti-nutrient agent grown over several decades in different parts of the because of its strong inter-chelating property; country and to find its relationship with economically however, more recent research suggested that this important traits. This pyramiding of agronomic and property of phytic acid may infact be beneficial. It not quality traits will help identifying most suitable only acts as antioxidant but also has anticancer, hypo- varieties with combined and balanced traits that will cholestrolmic and hypo-lipidemic effects and lowers be recommended to obtain quality wheat flour for blood sugar level. No reliable information is available Pakistani masses.for phytic acid contents in Pakistani wheat germ

Detection of phytochelatin synthase mediated heavy metal detoxification activity in Petroselinum crispum(Parsley)

Wajeeha SaeedSupervisor: Dr. Muhammad Maroof Shah

Heavy metals contamination is a growing problem scarcity of hyper accumulators there is a need of receiving great attention of environmental scientists. plants with heavy metal tolerance that can grow in Lead (Pb) is one of the ubiquitously distributed most harsh conditions such as in freezing and drought toxic metal in the soil causing oxidative stress in conditions. The objective of current study is to plants. There is great need of eco-friendly and cost investigate the PC synthase activity in Petroselinum effective methods of phytoremediation. Plants have crispum grown under various concentrations of Pb in developed adaptive mechanism of producing soil at CIIT Abbottabad research field. Molecular phytochelatins (PCs), a family of metal-inducible biology techniques like RT-PCR and selective peptides for sequestration of heavy metals into amplification by specific primers will be used for the vacuole. PCs are synthesized enzymatically from thiol, detection of metal tolerance related tanscripts.glutathione acting as substrate for phytochelatin synthase in the presence of heavy metals. Due to

Avalanche PhotoDiode (APD) at the Optical Network 5Gbps in terms of data carrying capacity per user can Unit (ONU) side in a 32 users Wavelength Division be attained if APDs are used at the receiver side in Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON). downstream direction.Simulation work reveals that performance gains of around 15km in terms of system reach and up to

In this paper, we describe a robust and adaptive with two existing automatic red-eye correction method to automatically detect and correct red-eye methods and exhibits considerable performance effect in digital photographs. It improves the existing gains. Additionally, the performance of eye detection iris pair detection approaches by introducing a novel part of the algorithm is separately evaluated on three process of tuning eye candidate points which is well-known images databases. The results have followed by robust iris pair selection among the shown that the method is extremely robust in tuned candidates. Finally, a novel and highly effective detection and correction of red-eye artefact. The redeye correction process is applied to the detected proposed method is designed to correct images iris regions. The red-eye correction scheme is without human intervention as the entire process adaptive to the severity of redness and results in high from face detection to red-eye correction is fully correction rate and improved visual appearance. The automated.performance of the proposed method is compared

Automatic Red-Eye Effect Removal using Combined Intensity and Color Information

Tauseef Ali, Shahid Khattak and Intaek Kim

Ongoing Research Projects of Graduate Students of Biotechnology

Health risk assessment by analyzing DNA demage in workers exposed to welding fumes

Ayesha Anwer

Supervisor: Dr. Qaisar Mehmood

The wide range of biologically active substances with establishment of genetic diseases. The plasma produced by various welding technologies represents m a l o n d i a l d e h y d e ( M D A ) , u r i n a r y 8 -a potential source of undetected high-risk working hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) level and certain conditions. Exposure to welding fumes and others have been identified as biomarkers of subsequent health risks may vary due to differences oxidative DNA damage. Therefore, the aim of the in the materials used and methods employed. But, proposed study is the preliminary evaluation of there are very few population-based studies on biomarkers and DNA damage of the workers exposed welding exposures and their health effects in the to welding fumes to various scales in Abbottabad. For general population. Therefore, it is desirable to this purpose, samples from the target and control investigate the prevalence of oxidative DNA strand groups will be tested in the laboratory to estimate the breakage, in welders, that is found to be associated possible health risks to the welders.



The seeds of Nigella sativa L., commonly known as Agrobacterium rhizogenes, a root producing black seeds or black cumin, are used in herbal bacterium, in order to get the hairy roots. After a few medicines all over the world for the treatment and days of infection, hairy roots will emerge from the prevention of a number of diseases like diarrhoea, infected portion. The hairy roots will be allowed to dyslipidaemia, nephrotoxicity, heptotoxicity etc. grow for several weeks, cut from the infected plants Although it is a very important medicinal plant but no and allowed to grow alone on the media. The work has been done previously for the production of continuous root growth is possible due to the transfer hairy roots from this novel plant. The research is of rol genes of Agrobacterium into the plant genome. designed to produce the hairy roots of N. sativa. For PCR analysis of these hairy roots will be carried out, this purpose, N. sativa plantlets will be grown on MS after some time, for confirmation of the transfer of rol media. These plantlets will be infected with genes into the hairy roots.

Maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays) inbred lines represent markers have proven to be powerful tools in the a fundamental resource for studies in genetics and assessment of genetic variation and in the elucidation breeding. While maize inbreds are used extensively in of genetic relationships within and among species. hybrid corn production, they have also been critical Their expression, unlike morphological markers, is for diverse genetic studies including the development not influenced by environmental factors; hence of linkage maps, quantitative trait locus mapping, reflect the actual level of genetic difference existing molecular evolution, developmental genetics, and between genotypes. Appropriate molecular markers physiological genetics. Knowledge of the have been used in analysis of genetic distance. These relationships among lines would help to identify a set markers will be used for the evaluation of genetic of inbreds that have maximal diversity for the analysis diversity among maize inbred lines.of the effects of genetic background. Molecular

DNA Fingerprinting of Maize Inbred Lines using Molecular Markers

Maria ShaheenSupervisor: Dr. Amjad Hassan

The breeding efforts in the past remained focused wheat cultivars (including historical wheat varieties) mainly on increasing the per hectare yield of wheat, will be used in this study. These varieties will be thus the potential of grain quality remained grown in the field for determining genetic variation unexploited. There is ample scope for the based on morphological and agronomic traits. The development of wheat cultivars having high yield genes and molecular markers (SSR and RAPDs) will combined with high quality traits by extensive be used to identify genetic diversity among the breeding and screening programs. In order to cultivars and between the cultivars and markers. evaluate and utilize the germplasm effectively, it is Data for different qualitative & quantitative traits will important to investigate the extent of genetic be collected. The data will be analyzed using diversity available. The current study aims at statistical procedures and relationship between traits discovering the genetic diversity present in Pakistani will be established. This can lead in selecting a wheat germplasm based on key quality traits such as superior wheat cultivar which is better adapted to gluten strength, grain protein content and aluminum abiotic stress like soil acidity and is well equipped in tolerance. A set of randomly selected 30-40 Pakistani above mentioned quality traits.

Studying genetic diversity in Pakistani wheat for quality traits using DNA based molecular markers

Mehreen BatoolSupervisor: Dr. Muhammad Maroof Shah

Misbah BilalSupervisor: Dr. Abdul Mannan

Agrobacterium rhizogenes mediated genetic transformation of Nigella sativa L.

Maize has been subjected to intensive genetic and importance due to its simplicity, efficiency and non cytogenetic studies. Traditionally, morphological requirement of sequence information. The current characteristics of crop plants have been used for study aims at assessing genetic diversity in varietal and clone identification. However, this experimental late maturing hybrids including one method of cultivar identification is difficult, time maize composite developed at CIIT Abbottabad consuming and ambiguous. DNA based molecular nursery farm. For this purpose, late maturing hybrids markers are one of those new genomics tools which will be grown at CIIT Abbottabad. Data will be offers high resolving power. Moreover, these markers collected for various plant traits. DNA will be are not stage and tissue specific and also not affected extracted from leaves of late maturing hybrids and by environment. Polymerase based markers (PCR) will be analyzed using RAPDs markers. The have received more attention. PCR based markers morphological traits data and molecular data will be and RAPD markers have been widely used for analyzed for assessing genetic diversity in the late genotype identification in plant and gained maturing maize hybrids and the maize composite.

Molecular characterization of late maturing maize hybrids

Farhan AhmedSupervisor: Dr. Kiramat Khan

Wheat is the staple food of people in Pakistan and is prospects of this beneficial crop to be exploited in one of the most abundant energy sources. Winter temperate regions of Pakistan. In the current study, wheat is planted in fall and over yields the spring 25-30 cultivars of winter wheat will be grown at the crop. The crop undergoes various biotic stresses. Of research farm of COMSATS Institute of Information these stresses leaf rust caused by Puccinia recondita Technology (CIIT) Abbottabad. Data on disease occurs more frequently in Pakistan and causes heavy incidence will be determined in natural conditions and damage to the crop. There is an urgent need to grow after artificial inoculation and subsequently will be cultivars with higher disease resistance and greater analyzed statistically. DNA samples from the yield potential. The current study aims at experiment will be analyzed in CIIT laboratory using characterizing the winter wheat cultivars at molecular standard molecular protocols.level to evaluate response to leaf rust and to find

Molecular Characterization of Winter Wheat Cultivars in relation to Leaf Rust Disease

Ghazal KhursheedSupervisor: Dr. Amjad Hassan

Winter wheat is planted from September to regions due to its overlapping pattern with maize December in the Northern Hemisphere, sprouts plantation and thus it is grown as fodder crop. Also before freezing occurs, and then becomes dormant the yield of spring wheat in temperate regions is until the soil warms in the spring. It has a higher yield drastically low. It is therefore imperative to develop (three times) as compared to common Pakistani or improve winter wheat for such areas so that the spring wheat and is more efficient in water utilization. production acreage may be increased. The objectives It is also a good weed competitor. High yield potential of current study are to decipher the winter wheat and reduced pesticide costs mean greater potential potential in temperate and semi-temperate for increased returns per acre. It requires conditions and to analyze genetic variability of the vernalization which activates VRN1 gene which is germplasm under temperate or semi-temperate responsible for bolting i.e. initiation of flowering. The conditions.spring type wheat is not too suitable for winter

Exploring the Potential of Winter Wheat in Temperate Regions of Pakistan using Conventional and Biotechnological Techniques

Muhammad Wajid UllahSupervisor: Dr. Muhammad Maroof Shah


Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB) is a serious foliar to identify hybrids with high disease resistance and disease of maize throughout the world. Yield losses higher grain yield potential. Maize hybrids will be can easily exceed 50% if the disease appears before grown at COMSATS Institute of Information flowering. NCLB is mainly controlled by resistant Technology (CIIT) Abbottabad research farm. Data cultivars. Resistance is either quantitative or on disease incidence, agronomic traits and grain yield qualitative. Depending on the environment, will be collected and analyzed using molecular qualitative resistance of maize may have partial effect markers in CIIT biotechnology laboratory by where as quantitative resistance may have complete employing standard protocols. This study will enable resistance. In the current study 24 early maturing breeders to formulate new strategies to cultivate this maize hybrids and one elite variety will be beneficial crop with suitable genotypes.characterized at molecular level with respect to NCLB

Molecular Study of Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB) Resistance in Maize Hybrids

Maize is the highest yielding cereal crop in the world. polymorphism (RFLPs) has been proposed for cultivar It is of great significance for countries like Pakistan. It identification. However, PCR based markers have is used for various purposes such as food, fodder, received more attention. PCR based markers have medicine, industrial products etc. Maize, has been been widely used for genotype identification in plant subjected to intensive genetic and cytogenetic and gained importance due to its simplicity, efficiency studies in the past. Traditionally, morphological and non requirement of sequence information. The characteristics of crop plants have been used for current study aims at assessing genetic diversity in varietal and clone identification. However, this experimental early maturing hybrids and a variety, method of cultivar identification is difficult, time CIIT Abbottabad nursery farm. The early maturing consuming and ambiguous. The ability of biochemical hybrids and the variety will be grown at CIIT analysis to distinguish among the cultivars is poor. Abbottabad. Data will be collected for various traits. Alternatively, DNA based molecular markers are one DNA will be extracted from leaves of the hybrids and of those new genomics tools which offers high the variety and will be analyzed, using molecular resolving power. Unlike other markers, these markers markers. The data on morphological traits and are not stage and tissue specific and also not affected molecular data will be analyzed for assessing genetic by environment. Restriction fragment length diversity in maturing hybrids and the variety.

Comparative study of genetic diversity of early maturing maize hybrids through morphological traits and molecular markers

rdUmar Javaid, Student MS Biotechnology 3 Semester

Supervisor: Dr. Kiramat Khan

Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a new functional and production of BC. The waste materials obtained from fascinating biomaterial which finds applications in various industrial and agricultural sectors seem to diverse fields including high performance speaker constitute an attractive feedstock for this purpose diaphragms, tourniquets, diet foods, artificial skin, because of its large-scale availability in Pakistan. medical pads, make-up pads, and paint thickeners. Therefore, the aim of the proposed study is the However, the production of BC from a chemically preliminary evaluation of such waste materials as defined medium is an expensive process, thus culture media for the production of BC. For this hindering its application in commercial purposes. purpose, various waste materials will be tested in a Therefore, it is desirable to investigate the feasibility static and agitated flask cultures using Acetobacter of using an alternate, cheaper culture media for the xylinum for the production of BC.

Biocellulose production

Waleed Ahamed KhattakSupervisor: Dr Taous Khan

Tehmina KianiSupervisor: Dr. Amjad Hassan

The genetic understanding of bread wheat is (RILs) developed by a sub-specific cross between hampered by its genome complexity and polyploid Tritcum boeoticum and Triticum monococcum. The nature. Identifying and mapping genes controlling RILs population along with their parents will be grown important traits can be facilitated by the use of its in two replications under a sheath house condition diploid relatives. The “A” genome of hexaploid wheat and in the field. Data for different qualitative and is one of the major contributors of economically quantitative traits will be collected. The data will be important genes. Current study aims at identifying analyzed using statistical procedures and relationship and mapping QTLs for economically important traits between traits will be established. The genes and on the “A” genome. The wheat population used in molecular markers (SSR and RAPDs) will be used to this study will be a set of recombinant inbred lines identify QTLs related with important traits.

Mapping genes controlling important traits on the A genome of diploid wheat

Nasrullah KhanSupervisor: Dr. Muhammad Maroof Shah

Wheat is an important cereal worldwide but it is is laborious, needs sterile conditions and involves suffering major yield losses due to various biotic and somaclonal variations. Moreover it is not applicable abiotic stresses. Various methods are being used for for varieties that are recalcitrant to regeneration. creating transgenic lines including biolistic and Recently an in Planta transformation method using Agrobacterium-mediated method. Former method Agrobacterium has been reported. This is a direct has some limitations like high copy number of genes method of transformation and doesn't involve tissue and less stable expression of transgene. Although culturing; hence it can be used to transform Agrobacterium mediated transformation is relatively recalcitrant varieties also. This method will be tested efficient and robust method; it has its own limitations. for local wheat varieties and especially those which The conventional Agrobacterium-mediated are recalcitrant to regeneration.transformation is carried out via tissue culture which

Testing Agrobacterium- mediated in Planta transformation method for local wheat varieties

Sehrish MananSupervisor: Dr. Jamshaid Hussain

Abiotic stresses are major threats to the agriculture. transcription factors is emerging as powerful tool for Classical breeding trials were good source of controlling the stress responsive genes. Different developing stress tolerant varieties but it is a long classes of transcription factors are involved in biotic process and requires field experiment. Emergence of and abiotic stress tolerance. Ethylene response factor molecular biology and genetic engineering has (ERF) proteins function as multiple regulators in the efficiently tackled these problems. Genetic interaction of different stress-responsive pathways. engineering strategy, based on introduction of stress TsrfI gene of tomato is the member of same class but responsive genes and putative tolerance is proved to shows tolerance against abiotic stresses as well due be a quick approach for crop improvement. to DRE (dehydration responsive element) binding Previously “single action” genes were introduced but domain. Current study aims to clone Tsrf1 gene of with little success as hundreds of genes might be tomato in expression vector that will later be used to involved in establishment of complete stress create transgenic plants resistant to abiotic/biotic tolerance. Engineering the regulatory machinery via stresses.

Cloning of an ERF family transcription factorSidratul Mutaha

Supervisor: Dr. Jamshaid Hussain


Although a vehicular Ad-Hoc network (VANET) can be such as AODV, DSR, OLSR and ZRP, that suggest used in many cases but the most preferable is a solutions for routing within a vehicle ad-hoc network. VANET connected to the internet. This is achieved by In this thesis the Ad-hoc On Demand Distance Vector using gateways which act as bridges between a Routing Protocol (AODV) is used and modified to VANET and the internet. To communicate in- examine the interconnection between a vehicle ad-between, a mobile node needs to find a valid route to hoc network and the Internet. For this purpose the gateway which requires gateway discovery Network Simulator 2 (NS-2), has been used. mechanism. Realistic vehicular mobility traces can be Parameters such as packet delivery ratio, average generated using Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks Mobility end-to-end delay, AODV overload, effects of varying Simulator (VanetMobiSim), which is an open source beacon interval and mobility have been evaluated. java-based generator. VanetMobiSim outputs Furthermore, the thesis examines and compares vehicular mobility traces in formats for NS-2 or three approaches for gateway discovery.Qualnet. There are several ad-hoc routing protocols,

Much attention have been paid on adaptive inverse verifies the potential of this controller. Induction control scheme from decades to control the nonlinear motor is chosen because of high demand for its plants, because of its low computational cost and elevated performance in industrial machinery plus it robust tracking criterion. To overcome the draw back is extremely rugged, reliable and enjoys low of indirect adaptive inverse controller, Direct adaptive maintenance cost. Simulation results for DAIC with inverse controller was designed [1] which further observer and DAIC without observer are discussed. reduced the complexity of the controller and also Where observer is used to reduce the oscillation at improved the performance for the underdamped the steady state of the plant and gives smooth systems In this thesis position of induction motor is tracking of the reference signal.controlled using Direct adaptive inverse control which

Interconnectivity Using Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

Saba AltafSupervised by: Dr. Laiq Khan

Position Control of Induction Motor using Direct Adaptive Inverse Control

Sadaf Anjum

Supervised by: Dr. Laiq Khan

The purpose of this study is to acquire passive, semi- Background information on the car models and the active and active suspension system for full-car controllers is provided and five different active model's suspension control. Mathematical modeling controllers i.e. Takagi Sugeno Kang (TSK), TSK 1, TSK of the full-car model and suspension systems is 2, TSK 3, and Standard Additive Model (SAM) are evaluated. Then with the help of this design, tested and simulated on full-car model's suspension simulation and testing of different controllers for in MATLAB/SIMULINK. The comparison between active suspension system on full-car model's these controllers with the passive suspension system suspensions has been carried out. Most of the car and semi-active suspension system is performed. It is uses traditional passive suspension system that can't observed that active control provides better results handle the tradeoff between vehicle stability and than passive suspension system both in terms of passenger safety. Active control has the ability to providing passenger comfort and in keeping the handle this tradeoff and provide both vehicle stability vehicle stable.and passenger comfort.

The need for iterative methods derived from the fact heuristic decision making, and in some cases that it is usually impractical and sometimes complete computationally based solution can not be impossible to locate a critical point of the function in obtained in timely fashion. Fuzzy_ANN Based Newton attempt to find the exact solution of the system. In Raphson Approach is the best suited technique. The this scenario, the proposed 'Fuzzy_ANN based proposed technique achieves fast convergence in Newton Raphson Load Flow Analysis' is the best solving non-linear system of equation of large power choice. In the area of standard load flow studies, system. In this architecture, dimension of the since the information is not always correct and is equations do not affect the computational time.frequently characterized by the imprecision and


FULL CAR MODEL'S SUSPENSION CONTROL USING ADAPTIVE SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES

Muhammad Umair KhanSupervised by: Dr. Laiq Khan

FUZZY_ANN BASED NEWTON RAPHSONLOAD FLOW ANALYSIS

Aftab Ahmed KhanSupervised by: Dr. Laiq Khan

A novel technique named fuzzy like adaptive control is scheme involves either edge triggered standard proposed for adaptive position control of nonlinear deviation to update the centers and variances of the dynamic plants such as the induction motor. To error. The main advantage of the proposed approach accurately track the rotor position of an induction is simplicity along with high performance, and it has motor, the key has been a proper design of a torque been proved that the closed-loop system using fuzzy controller. The Induction motor dynamic behavior like adaptive controller is globally stable and the presents a nonlinear coupling between the flux and tracking error converges to the neighborhood of zero. the torque and so the decoupling has been the first The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified task, as in field-oriented control and direct torque with the help of real-time experiments for the position control. The proposed method utilizes the radial basis control of induction motor system.function network for the learning of error. The

Fuzzy Like Adaptive Position Control of Induction MotorMuhammad Bilal Qureshi

Supervised by: Dr. Laiq Khan

ABSTRACT of MS Thesis

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Dr. Ghulam Murtaza, Assistant Professor, http://www.bod.com/index.php?id=3435&oDepartment of Pharmacy, COMSATS Institute of bjk_id=403095.Information Technology, Abbottabad has published a Dr. Ghulam Murtaza recently joined Pharmacy book entitled “Sustained release formulation Department of CIIT Abbottabad and has published development by microencapsulation” with ISBN this book and many research papers in International 978-3-8383-8412-2 in Germany by LAP (Lambert Journals having Impact Factor, from COMSATS Academic Publishing), AG & Co., KG Germany. address in this short span of time for which he really This book of Dr. Ghulam Murtaza is available at the deserves a lot of appreciations. website: , and complete Congratulations to him from the CIIT Abbottabad's information about this book is available on line at family.

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Book Published by Dr. Ghulam Murtaza of CIIT Abbottabad

Department of Pharmacy

1.Identification of PCR-based molecular 4.Study the effects of environment on markers for the detection of potato late prevalence and distribution of potato leaf roll blight disease in Abbottabad region. virus (PLRV) disease in Hazara DivisionAward Amount: Rs. 0.20 Million Sponsoring Agency: CIIT Islamabad

Miss Saneela Amir and Dr. M. Maroof Shah Zeeshan Gul and Dr. M. Maroof Shah2.The influence of environment on the Award Amount: Rs. 0.15 Million

morphological and biochemical traits of 5.Genotypic and Phenotypic response of Maize. vegetables to Pesticides.Sponsoring Agency: CIIT Islamabad Sponsoring Agency: CIIT IslamabadMr. Khurram Maqbool and Dr. M. Maroof Shah Mr. Saqib Khan and Dr. M. Maroof ShahAward Amount: Rs. 0.15 Million. Award Amount: Rs. 0.73 Million

3.Identification of PCR-based primers for the 6.Isolation and biochemical analyses of detection of Ph1 gene region in wheat therapeutic compounds in Tagetes species. Sponsoring Agency: CIIT Islamabad 2008-2010Ummarah Waheed Khan and Dr. M. Maroof Shah Sponsoring Agency: CIIT IslamabadAward Amount: Rs. 0.10 Million. Miss Irum Shahzadi and Dr. M. Maroof Shah

Award Amount: Rs. 0.200 Million.

Completion of HEC Approved Research Projects by Dr. M. Maroof Shah

Biotechnology ProgramDepartment of Environmental Sciences

“Tectonic map of Central & Western Sulaiman Fold hydrocarbon, coal, ground water, geo-hazard Belt, Pakistan (Scale 1: 250,000)” covering about assessments, agriculture, and environmental 9800 SQ/KM frontier area of Mari-Bugti Agency of studies. It is available through orders to the Baluchistan is published (2010) by Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed “Librarian, COMSATS Institute of Information Khan Jadoon, Chairman, Environmental Sciences Technology, Abbottabad”.Department, CIIT Abbottabad. This is first ever publication of the Earth Sciences Program in the form of a geological map of an area which is not yet fully mapped due to the hostile political and security conditions. The map is an important contribution due to the Mari-Bugti Agency recognized as an area with most prolific hydrocarbon reserves and extreme degree of seismicity in Pakistan. The publication is a result of years of research with financial cooperation of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and the Tullow Pakistan (Developments) Limited. The publication is aimed at to reach-out to as many geoscientists in academia, industry, students and general public as possible to serve as a tool for teaching/research, and socio-economic uplift of the country due to its usefulness towards exploration for

Cost PriceE & P Companies US$ 20

Geoscientist & Citizens: Pak Rs. 300

Students: Pak Rs. 150

(Postage Inclusive)Cheques & bank drafts in favour of CIIT, Abbottabad

“Librarian, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad”

TECTONIC MAP OF CENTRAL & WESTERN SULAIMAN FOLD BELT, PAKISTAN

Another research project of Dr. Marrof Shah, Fund, has been approved. Title of the project is Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, "Wheat Improvement Using Targeted CIIT Abbottabad, worth Rs. 2.4058 million, under Genomic Approaches".Pakistan Science Foundation's Pak-US Natural The CIIT Abbottabad's family extends warm wishes Sciences Linkages Programme (NSLP) Endowment to him and his team for this great achievement.

Another Research Project of Dr. M. Maroof Shah gets approved

October - December 2010 47N E W S L E T T E R 46WHO’S NEW

Zia Muhammad Loni

Designation: LecturerQualification: MS, MAJU, IslamabadResearch Interests: Spatial Channel Models

WHO’S NEW

Dr. Khurshid Ayub

Designation: Assistant ProfessorQualification: Post-Doc (Queens University, Kingston, Canada)Research Interests: Materials chemistry (Photoswitches, Liquid Crystals), Computational Chemistry



Ahmad Fayyaz

Designation: LecturerQualification: MS, University of Surrey, UKResearch Interests: Mobile Communications, Cognitive radios

Ihsan Ullah

Designation: LecturerQualification: MS, NUSTResearch Interests: Communications, Signal Processing

Arbab Mohsin Ali

Designation: LecturerQualification: M.Sc, University of Southampton, UKResearch Interests: Exit charts, Iterative decoding, TCM/TTCM and Mapping schemes

Fahimullah Khan

Designation: LecturerQualification: MS, GIK Institute, PakistanResearch Interests: MEMS, CMOS IC designing, RF MEMS

Usman Ali

Designation: LecturerQualification: MS, CIIT AbbottabadResearch Interests: Fuzzy And Neural Network.

The research grants worth 0.2 million each were which are emerging as new hope for medicinal and approved for two faculty members of Department of synthetic chemists as these are enzymatically stable Environmental Sciences i.e. Dr. Romana Khan and Mr. than á-amino acids. The synthesized â-amino acids Muhammad Irfan awarded by CIIT. The details of will be screened out against different enzymes to these projects are as under: explore inhibition potential of this interesting new

class of molecules. 1. Title: Enzyme Inhibition Studies of â-

Amino acids and their Derivatives 2. Title: Design and Construction of a cylindrical photoreactor for decomposition

Principal Investigator of aqueous organic pollutants using TiO 2

Muhammad Irfan, Assistant Professor, Environmental and doped-TiO Photocatalysts2

Sciences Department

Principal InvestigatorCo- Principal Investigator Dr. Romana Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of Khurram Shoaib, PhD Student, Chemistry Environmental Sciences Amount: 0.2 Million

Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Taous KhanThe project is related to synthesis of â-Amino acids Award: 0.2 m

Approved Research Projects of Environmental Sciences Department

Mr. Kahlid Zaman, Assistant Professor, Department of q i d = 1 2 9 0 4 0 8 3 3 5 & s r = 8 - 1 7Management Sciences, CIIT Abbottabad has Mr. Khalid Zaman is a young researcher having published a book entitled “Time Series Econometrics: marvelous research capabilities and has a long list of A Practical Approach to EViews Screen Shots” in LAP publications on his credit in national as well as (LAMBERT Academic Publishing) Germany. international scientific journals. His recent paper has The book is available online at the link: also been accepted for publication in the www.amazon.com and one can see complete “International Journal of Trade, Economics and i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t t h e b o o k a t : Finance”, Singapore. http://www.amazon.com/Time-Econometrics-

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Book Published by Mr. Khalid Zaman


Congratulations to the following MS Management 4. Saniya Khalidstudents who have completed their MS Management 5. Uzma Mehmoodresearch: 6. Tehmina Khan1. Mr. Razaullah Niazi 7. Sehrish Kiyani2. Laila Mustafa 8. Muhammad Ali3. Asim Ali 9. Haleem Zeb

Eight MS Management students complete their research


N E W S L E T T E R 48WHO’S NEW


Muhammad Ali

Designation:LecturerQualification: MSResearch Interests: Bioremediation, Biodegradation, Environmental Microbiology

Syed Muhammad Zeeshan Shirazi

Designation: LecturerQualification: M.Sc, University of Greenwich, UKResearch Interests: Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Environmental, Urban, Agricultural, and Geological Studies

Mudassar Ahmad

Designation:Research AssociateQualification: M.Sc, Punjab University LahoreResearch Interests: Petroleum Exploration, Global Tectonics

Azeem Shah

Designation: Research AssociateQualification: BS, University of PeshawarResearch Interests: Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy

Umair Bin Nisar

Designation: Research AssociateQualification: M.ScResearch Interests:Seismic data processing and interpretation, Seismic stratigraphy, Seismic attribute behavior in prediction of Hydrocarbons

Sidra Daud

Designation: Research AssociateQualification: M.ScResearch Interests: Seismic interpretation by using softwares, Well logging and sequence stratigraphy, tectonics

Muhammad Nauman Ahmad Qureshi

Designation: Research AssociateQualification: M.Sc, Punjab University LahoreResearch Interests: Structure Geology, Sedimentology, Petroleum Geology

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