By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features
Services)
Engr Z A Nizami, a
renowned educationist, was re-elected as the President of the Aligarh Muslim
University Old Boys Association (AMUOBA). He was once again elected unopposed
as President of this august body of Aligarhians for yet another three-year term.
Engr Nizami has continued to
be the President of the AMUOBA after Khawaja Waheed and Z H Lari headed the
body in the 1960s.
The AMUOBA will be having its
fresh elections on September 29 upon the completion of the three-year term of
the present office-bearers.
The candidates for the posts
of Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Joint Secretary, Honorary Joint Secretaries
(Sports, Publicity and Academic) have already returned unopposed with Masood
Alam, Dr Jaffar Nazir Usmani, Ali Zafar Khan Afridi and Shajar Ali
Hashmi, respectively having been elected to these posts without any opposition.
The contest on September 29
will be for the offices of Vice-Presidents for which five candidates are in the
field and Honorary General Secretary with two candidates as the contestants.
For the election of 18-member
Executive Committee, now there are 23 candidates left in the contest after
withdrawal of intending nominees on September 26.
Engr Z.A. Nizami is the
Chancellor of the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET),
Karachi, since its establishment in 1993 by virtue of his being the President
of the AMUOBA.
The SSUET was the first
engineering university to be established in the private sector and starting
with a few hundred students initially in four engineering disciplines then, it
today has about 5500 students in six engineering disciplines of Computer
Engineering, Electronics, Civil, Telecommunication, Bio-Medical besides
Computer Science.
Besides the SSUET, the AMUOBA
is also running Aligarh Institute of Technology (AIT) which has about a
thousand students on roll.
