BNU awarded degrees to 412 graduates

Lahore: The Beaconhouse National University (BNU) awarded degrees on 412 graduates while 20 of them also presented along with gold medals for the brilliant performance at its 11th convocation on Tuesday.

Among them were 129 postgraduates and 283 undergraduates whereas 14 of the 20 gold medalists awarded for exceptional scholastic achievements were girls.

The graduating students included 81 from the Mariam Dawood School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD), 51 from the Razia Hassan School of Architecture (SA), 40 aspirants from the Seeta Majeed School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (SLASS), 93 aspirants from the School of Media and Mass Communication (SMC), 70 students from the School of Computer and IT (SCIT), 40 from the Institute of Psychology (IP) while 37 apsirants from the School of Education (SE).

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The Nasim Hijazi Gold Medal was given to Hamza Naseer in the MS Public Relations and Advertising programme. Amjad Abdul Karim Randhawa and his wife, parents of Arfa Karim, awarded the Arfa Karim Gold Medal to Syed Haider Mehdi Zaidi in the BSc (Hons) Software Engineering programme.

The other gold medalists included Maysoon Hisham, Moonis Ahmad Shah, Ebaa Khurram, Yasmeen Zahra Salman,  Syeda Zayneb Ali Naqvi, Navaal Irfan, Abdus Samad Khan, Werdah Munib, Sarosh Isar, Nisma Zahid, Arfan Bashir, Omer Hamid, Yamna Arshad, Farheen Rizvi, Lamae Zulfiqar, Zarin Shoaib, Tallat Jabeen and Naureen Zaman.

The ceremony was headed by BNU Board of Governors Chairperson Nasreen Mahmud Kasuri along with Vice-Chancellor Shahid Hafiz Kardar, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Kasim Mahmud Kasuri as well as other board members.

Punjab Governor Rafique Rajwana arrived late at the convocation and he left the university after he came to know that the event had been started without him.

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Furthermore, the ceremony was attended by dignitaries, guests, faculty and parents of the graduating students.

Deans of BNU schools, including Prof Dr Gulzar Haider, Prof Dr Tariq Rahman, Prof Rashid Rana, Prof Dr Khaver Zia, Prof Dr Ruhi Khalid and Prof Dr Taimurul Hassan presented the graduates to the vice-chancellor.