Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor for raising education standards: first Convocation of WMC held

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar has said that the socio-economic indicators are considered the basic barometers to determine the quality of life which the citizens of any society may enjoy across the world and being the developing nation we, despite hectic struggle and spending sufficient resources still have to go a long way to ensure desired standards particularly in respect of health and education.
Addressing the First Convocation of the Women Medical College (WMC), Abbottabad; an institution working in the private sector on Tuesday, the Governor said, "To realise the dream of prosperous and developed Pakistan, we have no other choice but to shake off the slumbers of ignorance and to spread education to every nook and corner of the country".
The ceremony largely attended by educationists and elites of the town, parents and faculty members and was addressed by the Vice Chancellor of the Khyber Medical University, Professor Dr Hafeezullah and the Principal of the College, Professor Dr Zahir Shah.
In all 200 graduates of seven sessions; right from 2004 to 2010, Dr Chaman Ara; Dr Fatima Shahzadi and Dr Muneera Naz were declared the extra best graduates for the sessions 2005; 2009 and 2010 respectively for achieving distinctive positions in all their respective annual examinations.
Similarly, Dr Bushra Zafar, Dr Zainab Qadir, Dr Fakhira Naurin and Dr Aneela Yasmeen were honoured with gold medals for being adjudged the best graduates of the sessions, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008 respectively. Highlighting the importance of the quality of education, the Governor said the government is moving rapidly to realise maximum opportunities of better educational facilities to the young generation.
Referring to the role of private educational institutions in the promotion of higher learning, the Governor declared not to tolerate any compromise on quality of education at any cost. "It is always my earnest effort to ensure justified and realistic working of private educational institutions strictly in accordance with the core spirit of the importance of the education and would try his best to avoid the practice of mere making the educational institutions as a source of earning, he said.
Congratulating the graduates, the Governor said that they are lucky for having studied in decent educational institutions but at the same time they should also be mindful of the fact they owe a lot to those fellow youngsters, who could not have access to opportunities of similar standards.
He expressed deep pleasure over the vastly enhanced ratio of the girls students in the medical colleges, while paying rich tributes to ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, said that she was the champion of the cause of women folk whose role will always remained exemplary in this respect.
Earlier, the Vice Chancellor of the Khyber Medical University, Professor Dr Hafeezullah said that the Women Medical College is the leading institution in the private sector which has preferred their university to get its affiliation and with which its total strength of constituent as well as affiliated institutions have reached to 29.
The university, he added, is actively engaged to ensure better opportunities of learning and research to students of medical profession and for this purpose not only the examination system has been transformed in line with the present day needs but the curriculum is also being further developed.
Professor Dr Zahir Shah, Principal of the college said that college started about 12 years ago and offers teaching and research facilities both in medical and dental streams, which places it at the unique position amongst its sister institutions in the private sector.