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April 2018
Seminar on “Importance of Intellectual
Property Rights in SMEs” at Sheikhupura
Chamber of Commerce & Industry
PASTIC Sub-center Lahore organized a seminar on
“Importance of Intellectual Property Rights in
SMEs” on April 16th, 2018 at Sheikhupura Chamber
of Commerce & Industry (SCCI). Mr. Ehtisham
Rasool, Vice President, highlighted the importance of
Intellectual Property Rights and said World
Intellectual Property Day is celebrated every year on
April 24 to raise awareness of how patents,
copyrights, trademarks and design impact on our
daily life.
Mr. Ali Raza Khan, Deputy Director (STI), PASTIC,
delivered briefing about PASTIC services and
informed that recently PASTIC has established
technology and Innovation Support Centre (TISC)
desk's which provides different technological
information services to innovators to help them
exploit their potential and to create, protect and
manage their Intellectual Property Rights.
The Chief Guest, Mr. Manzoor Ul Haq Malik,
highlighted the importance of protecting Intellectual
Property Rights which were first recognized in the
Paris Convention for the protection of Industrial
properties in 1983, and one convention for the
protection of literary and artistic works in 1986.
Thereafter World Intellectual Property Organization
was established in 1967 to protect the Intellectual
Property Rights.
Mr. Nasir Mahmood Zahid, Deputy Director IPO
explained the importance of Intellectual Property
Rights in SMEs so that participants could take full
advantages of Intellectual Property Rights.
In technical sessions, Mr. Zahid explained the
industrial property, copyrights, patents, and
protection available to these rights. He also explained
the trademark, trademark registry. At the end of the
seminar, shields were distributed among the
distinguished guests.
Workshop on Use of Emerging
Technologies in Research: Google Apps
PASTIC Sub Centre Lahore, organized a one-day
workshop with collaboration of Lahore Medical and
Dental College Lahore, on “Use of Emerging
Technologies in Research: Google Apps”, on Friday
27th April 2018, at Lahore Medical and Dental
College, Lahore. A total of 45 participants from
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Dr. Saima Rubab department coordinator introduced
and overviewed the workshop program. After this Dr.
Asad Majeed Khan, Academic Director LMDC,
delivered his key note address and said that in this
technology era without the use of technologies we
can't do anything. Mr. Ali Raza Khan, Deputy
Director (STI), PASTIC Lahore, sub centre
introduced PASTIC and its services.
LMDC, others universities and libraries participated
in this workshop.
Mr. Nadeem Sohail, Manager Library, organized
technical session theoretically and practically on
Google Apps for researchers. Participants were
provided hands on practice on Google searching
strategies, google scholar, google drive, google docs,
sheets and slides.
Mr. Nadeem Sohail, Manager Library presented the
Google Forms, Google clouds search and practically
trained the participants about these apps. At the end,
shields were distributed among guests and resource
persons. Participants received their certificates
Training workshop on "Librarians
Personal Branding through Soft Skills
Development" at ICCBS Karachi
PASTIC Sub Centre Karachi arranged a 5-day
training workshop on "Librarians Personal Branding
through Soft Skills Development" from 9-13 April
2018, at L.E.J, International Centre for Chemical &
Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi,
in collaboration with Pakistan Library Club (PLC). In
the inaugural session, Prof. Dr. Farzana Shaheen,
Incharge ICCBS Library, was chief guest in the
workshop. Participants from different universities /
colleges / institutions from all over Sindh, attended
the workshop. Mr. Habib Akhter Jaffri Principle
Librarian & Project coordinator, from PASTIC
National Centre Islamabad, briefed about the library
project, and Mr. Abdul Fatah Shaikh, Deputy
Director PASTIC Sub Centre Karachi, delivered
briefing about PASTIC services.
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Training workshop on “Make your
research life easier with Mendeley Tool”
at PASTIC National Centre
PASTIC organized a training workshop on “Make
your research life easier with Mendeley Tool” during
April 11-12, 2018 at PASTIC National Centre,
Quaid-e-Azam University Campus, Islamabad. The
objective of this workshop is to build the capacity of
young researchers and to enhance their skills in
literature search, citation, sharing and discovering of
new research. Dr. Maryum Ibrar Shinwari, Senior
Scientific Information Officer (PASTIC) / Mendeley
Advisor, was the resource person of the workshop. 35
Participants from Quaid-e-Azam University and
PIDE participated in this training workshop.
The resource persons involved in the training were
Ms. Tooba Ahmad, Mr. Syed Habib Akhter Jaffari,
Mr. Noor uddin Merchant, Mr. Muhammad Anwar
Chaoudhry and Mr. Tariq Najmi.
During the closing session the Chief Guest was Prof.
Dr. Iqbal Chaoudhry, Director International Centre
for Chemical & Biological Sciences (ICCBS). Dr. M.
Akram Shaikh, Director General PASTIC National
Centre, Islamabad and Mr. Sameen Kardar, Joint
Director, Pakistan Library Club (PLC), were Guests
of Honor in the workshop.
Seminar on "How to Write Research
Proposal for Getting Funds" at PASTIC
Sub Centre Karachi
PASTIC Sub Centre Karachi arranged a two-day
Seminar on "How to Write Research Proposal for
Getting Funds" on April 4-5, 2018 at PASTIC Sub
Centre Karachi. A total of 35 participants attended the
workshop. Resource Person was Dr. Samiyah
Tasleem, from Federal Urdu University of Arts,
Science & Technology, Karachi.
PASTIC organized a three-day training workshop
from April 2-4, 2018 in collaboration with Faculty of
Social and Educational Sciences at Pir Mehr Ali Shah
Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, on
“Research tools and techniques to enhance quality of
Training programme at Pir Mehr Ali
Shah Arid Agriculture University to
nhance quality of Research
research”. Forty five research scholars, both students
and faculty members, participated in the training
programme. At the end of the training programme,
the Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Sarwat N. Mirza
distributed the training certificates among the
participants, and also appreciated the DG PASTIC
initiative to uplift the researcher's capability through
launching the need based training progamme at their
door step.
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This workshop was part of a series that are regularly
organized by PASTIC to train the young researchers
on modern ICT tools and techniques useful in
research. There are many citation tools available for
helping researchers in citation during completion of
their thesis. The Mendeley application owes a
unique position among these tools being free,
smarter and user-friendly. Besides it provides an
excellent platform where researcher can search
jobs/fellowships, research funds, find research
groups, search literature, etc. Moreover it is a cross-
platform application (Windows, Mac, Linux,
iPhone) that helps researchers to manage and
annotate their scientific paper collections. Citation
data from its cloud library can be accessed across
multiple devices e.g., Laptop, PC, iphone, etc. At the
end of the workshop, Principal System Analyst, Mr.
Saif Ullah Azim distributed certificates among the
participants.
PASTIC organized a Sindh Consortium meeting at
PASTIC Sub Centre Karachi on April 13, 2018,
which was attended by Senior Library professionals.
The core objective was to develop Library
Consortiums of S & T and R & D libraries of
Pakistan.
Sindh Consortium meeting at
PASTIC Sub Centre Karachi
The Director General PASTIC Prof. Dr. M. Akram
Shaikh presided over the meeting. He informed
about the development project, “Modernization of
PASTIC National Science Reference Library for
Effective Resource Sharing among S & T libraries in
Pakistan”. Participants, who were from various
universities and research institutions, shared their
recommendations on the topic. They appreciated the
decision taken by PASTIC to form Library
consortium because the consortium would address
many resource sharing issues. The Project
Coordinator, Syed Habib Akter Jaffri, presented
details of the project in his presentation.
Training workshop on “Data
Collection & Sample Size” at
PASTIC Sub Centre Karachi
PASTIC Sub Centre arranged a one-day training
workshop on “Data Collection & Sample Size” on 18
April 2018, at PASTIC Sub Centre Karachi. A total
of 18 participants attended the workshop. Resource
Person was Mr. Sajid Atif Aleem, Jinnah Sindh
Medical University.
Workshop for capacity building of
young scientists on “Communicating
Science to Society” at KUST Kohat.
PASTIC, Kohat University of Science & Technology
(KUST)-ORIC, Kohat and Technology Times,
Islamabad jointly organized One Day Workshop for
Capacity Building of Young Scientists on
“Communicating Science to Society,” on April 27,
2018 at KUST, Kohat.
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Workshop on Smart Literature Search,
Thesis and Internship R e p o r t Wr i t i n g
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One day training, titled "Smart Literature Search,
Thesis and Internship Report Writing Skills” was
held at SBBWU-Larama Campus, Peshawar on
April 26, 2018 for capacity building of the research
scholars and staff of Zoology Department. During
the opening ceremony Ms. Mahrukh Khattak (HOD,
Zoology Dept), emphasized that the proper literature
search is key to write a good thesis / report. Ms.
Ghazala Ali Khan, Deputy Director, PASTIC
Peshawar Sub Center, in her opening remarks
emphasized that PASTIC continuously puts efforts
for capacity building of the researchers through
different trainings throughout the country.
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The objectives of the workshop were capacity
building of scientists for overcoming hindrances
faced during scientific & technical information
dissemination and developing effective
communication skills and confidence in engaging
with public. Moreover, the workshop aimed at
providing evidence-based reporting on science and
technology. The programme started with Recitation
from the Holy Quran. Welcome address was
delivered by Dr. Tariq Jan, Director ORIC KUST.
The workshop was attended by large number of
faculty members, students and researchers. Dr.
Faizan Majeed, Associate Professor, Department of
Biotechnology, University of Science & Technology
Bannu (USTB) gave an excellent presentation on
“Communicating Science to Non- Scientific
Audience/Society.” Later on, Sayyed Paras Ali,
Editor Technology Times delivered presentation on
“Challenges & Opportunities to Science
Communicators.” Mr. Faisal Nadeem, a local media
person also highlighted the need of effective
communication to non-scientists.
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Akram Shaikh, DG PASTIC
stressed that there is a great need to bring non-
scientists closer to the scientific inventions and their
benefits to the society. Prof. Dr. Jamil Ahmed, Vice
Chancellor KUST, Kohat praised the organizers for
organizing such a demanding task for awareness of
scientific endeavours to the researchers, scientists
and society. At the end of ceremony, PASTIC Crest
shields were given to distinguished speakers and
Guests.
Ms. Ghazala Ali Khan (DD PASTIC), giving
presentation at the workshop.
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During the technical session, Dr. Rabea Ejaz from
SBBWU-Larama Campus Peshawar, delivered a
very comprehensive presentation about Smart
Literature Search, by practically involving the
participants to retrieve data from different websites.
She also taught the students that how they can
retrieve data from HEC digital library.
researchers through different trainings throughout
the country.
Mr. Muhammad Usman, Database Administrator,
PASTIC National Center, Islamabad was the
resource person of the training workshop. The
training included a series of lectures involving Data
Collection Methods, Analysis Techniques and Basics
of Statistics. Afterwards, 6 sessions were held for
hands-on training on SPSS (Statistical Package for
Social Science).
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Ms. Ghazala Ali Khan (DD PASTIC), presented a
detail presentation on Thesis and Internship Report
Writing Skills. 98 students filled their form for
bibliographic/documentation service as per need of
their topic. At the end of the session certificates were
distributed among the participants.
Training on SPSS: Quantitative
Data Research Analysis at PFI
Peshawar
Two Days Training, titled "Research Tools and
Techniques (SPSS)" was held at Pakistan Forest
Institute from 12-13 April 2018 for capacity building
of the faculty staff of PFI. During the opening
ceremony Dr. Memoona (Director Education)
emphasized that the usage of statistical analysis tools
should be maximized during the research process.
Such tools can help in fastening the research process,
as well as provide accurate results to the researchers.
Ms. Ghazala Ali Khan, Deputy Director, PASTIC
Peshawar Sub Center, emphasized that PASTIC
continuously puts efforts for capacity building of the
The participants were given training on Data
Manipulation, Data Transformation (Computing and
ReCoding), and Missing Values Analysis in first 2
sessions. The next session included hands-on training
on Descriptive Statistics through SPSS including
reporting of the results. The last 3 sessions included
hands-on training on Inferential Statistics including
1-Sample T-Test, Paired Samples t-Test, Independent
t-Test, 1-Way ANOVA, Linear Regression and Chi-
Square Test.
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Seminar on CPEC Opportunities and
Challenges at Sargodha
April 2018
PASTIC Sub Centre, Faisalabad in collaboration with
Sargodha Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(SCCI) organized one day seminar on CPEC
opportunities and challenges on 10th April, 2018 at
Sargodha. 70 well known industrialists and executive
members of Sargodha Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (SCCI) attended the seminar.
Sheikh Muhammad Naveed Iqbal, President,
Sargodha Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(SCCI) was the Chief Guest of the event and Mr.
Muhammad Aqil Khan Additional Director (STI),
PASTIC Islamabad was guest of honor. Sheikh
Muhammad Naveed Iqbal, President, SCCI gave
inaugural remarks. Muhammad Aqil Khan
Additional Director (STI), PASTIC Islamabad
briefly highlighted the importance of seminar and the
role of PASTIC regarding its information services
with reference to trade and technology information
and its coordination with Chamber of Commerce and
Industry. Two resource persons Dr. Liaquat Ali Shah
and Mr. Ahsan Abbas from Centre of Excellence for
CPEC (PIDE) Islamabad conducted the seminar. The
resource persons presented overview of CPEC,
economic issues related to CPEC and other issues
concerning industrial establishments, industrial
zones, special economic zones, trade and technology,
industrial cooperation etc. with reference to the
opportunities and challenges associated with CPEC
projects.
The purpose of organizing this seminar was to
appraise the SMEs and industrial sector about the
challenges and opportunities associated with CPEC
and to provide a platform for discussion about its
significance and impact as well as the core issues
related to finance, economics, governance,
management, etc. entailing this project. The seminar
was focused on the importance and scope of CPEC
from industrial point of view with reference to the
socio-economic development of country.
Training Workshop on “SPSS” at Women
University Multan
Two Days hands on training workshop on “SPSS”
was organized by PASTIC Sub-Centre Faisalabad,
from April 27-28, 2018, at the Women University
Multan. It was presided over by Prof. Dr. Asia Bibi,
Chairperson Department of Zoology. The Guest of
Honor was Mr. Muammad Hasnain Deputy Director
(STI) Faisalabad. Resource persons were Mr.
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Workshop for capacity building
of young scientists on “Communicating
Science to Society” at BZU Multan
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PASTIC Services Stalls
PASTIC National Center and its sub-centers regularly
organize information services stalls all over the country,
wherein PASTIC publications are displayed and
membership forms/pamphlets are distributed, and the
visitors are briefed about PASTIC services. In
continuation of this regular activity following stalls were
organized during the month of April 2018 at the following
places:-
Karachi
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PASTIC Sub Centre, Karachi arranged PASTIC
Services Stall, during “"Autism Awareness Seminar" at.
A.Q. Khan Institute of Behavior Science, Dow University
of Health Science on April 5, 2018. More than 200
researchers, faculty members and students from different
universities visited PASTIC services stall.
Muzafarabad
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PASTIC Sub Centre Muzaffarabad Organized a
stall at University of Science & Technology Mirpur
(MUST), on April 9, 2018. About 22 students filled
bibliographic service proforma for the material relevant
to their research work.