The Advanced Studies and Research Board, University of Karachi, has awarded 16 PhD degrees in various disciplines.

The KU Registrar, Professor Dr Saleem Shahzad, said that the ASRB in its recently held meeting under the chairmanship of the Vice Chancellor, Professor Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi, awarded these degrees.

According to him, the PhD degrees were awarded to Saima Naz (Chemistry), Touqeer Fatima (General History), Areej Khan and Nooreen Begum (Clinical Psychology), Tamkeen Fatima (Molecular Medicine), Aisha Khalid and M. Salman (Chemistry), M. Irfan Nazir (Usool-al-Din), Bulbul Jan (ISPA), Khaleel Ullah (Islamic Learning), Abdur Rahman (Quran and Sunnah), Noor Fatima (Botany), Rabia Hanif (Psychology), Adnan Akhter Faridi (Public Administration), Sundus Iftikhar (Statistics) and M. Farooq (Pharmaceutics).