Indian scientists warmly received at Pakistan University

A delegation of [Indian] scientists led by Dr Darshan Singh visited University of Agriculture in Faisalabad, Pakistan, from September 21-26 to attend the international conference on Entomological Sciences and International Workshop on Cotton. The other delegates included Dr G S Deol, head, Department of Entomology; Dr Amrik Singh Sohi, Dr V K Dilawari, Dr Gursharan Singh and Dr G S Sandhu. At the conference, Dr Darshan Singh made a presentation on the strengths of the academic and research programmes of PAU, with special emphasis on facilities and state-of-the-art laboratory facilities here, with particular reference to Entomology.

The faculty and the postgraduate students showed keen interest in the higher education programmes being executed at PAU. He suggested that apart from faculty participations in the annual Old Boys meet held both at the mother institute, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad and at PAU, initiative needs to be taken across the borders to encourage faculty as well as postgraduate student mobility programmes…