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Senior Faculty Member Institute of Communication Studies Punjab University, Dr Waqar Chaudhry will represent Pakistan in international workshop on communication starting from October 30 in the provincial capital.
The theme of the workshop is “Strategies and mechanisms to optimise the external communications of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation Chamber of Commerce and Industry”.
With 35 years of vast and diversified field experience as working journalist, Dr Chaudhry will present research paper based on his lifelong expertise. He is a former resident editor of Pakistan Observer and director of Associated Press of Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Punjab University Hailey College of Banking and Finance, in collaboration with the State Bank of Pakistan conducted an awareness seminar on security features of currency notes.
The objective of the seminar was to develop the skills of students in differentiating between genuine and counterfeit currency notes. Officials from currency department of the local office of the SBP, led by Shehla Manzoor, delivered lectures in the two sessions of the seminar.
HCBF Principal Dr Mubbsher Munawar Khan, faculty members and over 250 students participated in the sessions. With the help of instruments, the SBP officials elaborated the salient security features of the currency notes.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Khan expressed his gratitude for the SBP officials for their collaboration in conducting such informative sessions on vital issues like currency counterfeiting. He expressed his desire for strengthening this linkage for the benefit of the academia in general and students in particular.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 29th, 2017.
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