LAHORE:
“Where one comes from does not determine one’s career or destiny, what matter is that one remains focused,” Governor Sardar Latif Ahmad Khan Khosa said on Wednesday.
The governor was addressing the University of South Asia (USA) students at their second convocation.
Khosa shared his experiences with the students and concluded that hard work never went waste.
“I come from an area where you would not find proper roads. From a humble law student, I rose to be attorney general and governor. Devotion to one’s objectives in life is key to success,” he said. Khosa urged the students to be proud of their origins and never let it affect their motivation.
Some 600 students were conferred degrees in various disciplines, 40 of them were awarded gold medals.
The ceremony, held at Pearl Continental Hotel, was also addressed by the Vice Chancellor, Dil Mohammad, and the Board of Governors’ chairman Mehmood Sadiq.
Khosa praised USA for providing its students with “international standard” education. He hoped that the USA would produce future market leaders.
He said that the private sector had significantly progressed in higher education over the last few years.
Prof Muhammad also presented the annual report highlighting the achievements of the students and the faculty. He said that that the average CGPA of the graduating students was rising.
“USA has established a new campus on Burki Road. Another campus in Karachi will open soon,” he added.
The degrees awarded included LLM, LLB, commence, BSc in electrical engineering, BA in architecture, BA in fashion and arts, BA in media studies, MBA and BBA.
MBA (Finance and HR) student Mariam Naeem scored the highest CGPA of 3.9.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 9th, 2011.
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