The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has offered available free space in Nust to the affected software industrial partners who suffered in the recent suicide attack at Marriott Hotel, Islamabad.
According to a press release of Nust issued on Friday, the major software houses were located in the Evacuee Trust Complex adjacent to Marriott Hotel, namely KMKR, Siemens, Motorola, Mondo, Geo Paq, Touchstone Communications, Ovex Technologies, Microsoft, BrightSpyre, Ministry of IT, PSEB, Jin Technologies, Kaptec, Ikonomi, Bentley, Pral, Inbox, Cisco and Pakistan Tobacco, who are in a dire need to shift elsewhere.
Nust School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) while expressing condolence and commiseration on the tragic deaths of the employees of some of these companies has offered them to utilise its available free space as a stop-gap arrangement, as gesture of goodwill.
Ikonomi, Kaptec and Jin Technologies have already moved to SEECS campus till the recovery of their own infrastructure at Islamabad. There is space available to accommodate all willing industrial partners because of semester break and availability of labs and classrooms.-PR