The director of Alliance Francaise Dominique Scobry paid a visit to Department of French, Punjab University and announced 50 percent reduction in French courses especially for Punjab University students. The purpose was to facilitate and promote French language in Pakistan. He also conversed with the beginner’s level students of Online French and Certificate in French language course.
The students presented role plays in French language. The director congratulated the students for their excellent performance, creativity and French language skills. In his meeting with the Chairperson Dr Saleha, he expressed his interest in developing a database for francophone alumni network. Scobry assured his extended support to the department in academic and co-curricular activities.
PU SHINES IN FIRST YOUTH CARNIVAL: Punjab University students have shown outstanding performance and claimed Team Trophy in various competitions of “IST Youth Carnival 2012” which was organized by Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad.
The students got 1st position in various competitions were Talal Raza (ICS) in Journalism Reporting, Saima Sadaqat (Mathematics) Math Quiz, Rakia Raza (Arts and Design) Painting Competition, Fahad Mushtaq (Art and Design) Calligraphy, Muddasar Kazmi (Art and Design) Sketching, Awais Ali Sheikh (Art and Design) Thematic Photography, Zeeshan Cheema (Chem. Engineering) Urdu Nazam and Oswa Arshad from Art and Design won the title of Best Female Actress in Drama. The students got 2nd positions were Awais Ali Sheikh (Arts and Design) Photo Story, Naveed Zia (Dept. of Urdu) Urdu Ghazal, Shajjar Abbas (ICS) English Debate. The students got 3rd positions were Naveed Ashan and Naima (ICS and Art and Design) Visage Canvas and Waseem Afzal Khaloon (Law College) Urdu Debate and Umair Khurished (Chem. Engineering) in Chess Competition. While Asim Zubair (ICS) Documentary and Short Film, Shazeb Ashiq, shaharyar Khan, Ashhar, Hamza Qureshi and Ubaid ullah Qureshi (Chem. Engineering) E-Gaming Competiton, Obaid ullah Qureshi (Chem. Engineering) NFS-Most wanted, Naeema Butt, Nida Tariq, Umme Abeeha, Naveed Ahsan, Pavan Orora Abdul Manan and Asim Zubair from ICS with Oswa Arshad and Rakia Raza of Art and Design in Drama shown their excellent performances.
