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HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS
2020
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Rediscovering the art of Daastan Goi

o rediscover the art of Daastan event was aimed at reviving and Ranjha, delivered by Hafiz Amir and Ali
G o i ( s t o r y t e l l i n g ) , t h e celebrating the oral tradition of Haider.
TGovernment College University storytelling as a form of human The exhilarating tone of the piece was
Safdar Mir English Literary Circle communication wherein knowledge, maintained by the performers. The
(SMELC) of held a graceful event art, ideas and cultural material was soulfulness was continued through Mian
titled 'Shab-e-Daastan' at the received, preserved and transmitted Muhammad Bukhsh's Saif-ul-Maluk
University's Amphitheatre. The orally from one generation to another. presented by Hafiz Shakeel. It was
evening also included performances The first performance of the evening followed by a remarkable reenactment of
and dramatic enactments based on was based on an excerpt of Dastan the legend of Hamlet from a female
folk stories and dastans from the Amir Hamza which was delivered by perspective presented by Eesha Raazia.
multi-cultural landscape of the MPhil English Literature student With these dastans and folklores, the
subcontinent and beyond, Muhammad Ali. It was followed by a evening entered into a more somber tone Page 6
Talking to media, Vice Chancellor Prof. Ghazal sung by Awais Nekokara. with a medley of songs from Amna and
Dr. Asghar Zaidi said that the literary The Urdu part was followed by Heer Rumaysa, assisted by Awais Nekokara.

Engineering students exhibit tech skills at IUPEX

ngineering students
f r o m d i f f e r e n t
Euniversities put on
display their indigenous
smart devices for patients
and autonomous robots at
the Inter-University Project
Exhibition (IUPEX 2020).
The one-day exhibition was
held here at GCU Lahore
under the auspices of its
Electrical Engineering
Depar tment and Office
Research, Innovation and
Commercialization (ORIC).
About 22 smart devices were
put on display which included wheel chair for the disabled. promotion of innovation with more innovative ideas
robotic glove for rehabilitation Vice Chancellor Prof. Asghar culture among youth. and technologies.
of patients, QR code-based Zaidi said that creativity, ORIC Director Dr Junaid He said that more than 100
medicine vending machine, innovation and technology Zafar said IUPEX 2020 was students submitted projects,
indigenous portable ECG development were the key to not only aimed at providing out of which only 22 projects
machine, wireless power the economic prosperity of opportunities to students of were displayed.
transfer system, hybrid Pakistan. Philanthropist and different universities to Different companies and
electric motorcycle, library entrepreneur Sabahat Rafiq exhibit their innovate work to funding agencies were also
security system, WIFI also visited the exhibition and companies but also it invited to IUPEX 2020 to
multipurpose autonomous announced a donation of educated and motivated w i t n e s s a n d f u n d t h e
drone and voice controlled $5,000 to the GCU for other students to come up projects.