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Mentoring Forum This forum is aimed at enabling NEDians to establish mentor-mentee relationships among themselves. This mentoring could be related to higher education, career advice, entrepreneurship or any other area where accomplished NEDians can help their fellow alumni get honest, friendly advice and/or practical assistance.	15	Jul 5 Reply by Muhammad Zeeshan Zia
NED & Alumni Giving This forum is dedicated to discussing how NED alumni can play a role in enhancing the academic life, extra-curricular activities and international perception of their alma mater. This is well established tradition in the United States and, recently, IIT of India has started emulating this tradition. The result has been a remarkable improvement in the perception of IITs in the West. IIT graduates now come with a cachet rarely accorded foreign institutions of higher learning by US industry and academia. Can we, the NED alums, do the same for NED? Please offer your thoughts.	6	May 30 Reply by Riaz Haq
Contemporary Pakistani Society This forum is intended to provide an opportunity for members to share their thoughts in a civil way on how they see Pakistani society today including the good, the bad and the ugly. As we talk about the problems, the members are expected to show civility and restraint in dealing with differences that exist in our society and focus our attention on the issues and the possible solutions.	12	Jun 24 Reply by Syed Ahsan Ali
Resources for motivated self-learners The fundamental skill we all need to have learned by the time we are in an institution of higher learning like NEDUET is to learn on our own. We need to be self-motivated to seek the resources to educate ourselves about our specialized field and our general education about the world to learn independently and think analytically and act without whining. This forum is dedicated to life-long self learners who have no interest in learning by rote just to pass the exams and get a degree.With all of the online resources availlable including free access to course materials at the top universities, abundance of online knowledge such as Wikipedia, it is now more possible than ever. Some examples are : 1. Over 1700 MIT free online courses at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm 2. Online encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 3. Online Research Networks such as www.innocentive.com With proliferation of such resources, any self-motivated person, faculty or student can master the material in their g=field of choice regardless of any other issues or excuses. Let's talk about what we can do and not focus on the negatives.	2	Oct. 29, 2007 Reply by Muhammad Waseem
Culture of Achievement & Entrepreneurship among NEDians How can we promote a culture of achievement in education, entrepreneurship and self-reliance among fellow NEDians? How about looking at some of the role models who have made significant accomplishments after graduating from NED? What did they do? How did they do it? How can we emulate them? Or chart our own course that leads to even greater success? Let's talk about these things in this forum.	1	Sep. 20, 2007 Role Models by Riaz Haq
NED Students Opinions & Commentary This is the place current students of NED can express opinions and make comments about NED policies, processes, decisions etc in a respectful way without bashing a particular person.	1	Sep. 20, 2007 NED Policy by Ghufran
Cricket Lovers Any one watching ICC twenty20 tourney in South Africa? Please tell us what you think about 2020?	19	Jul 13 Cricket and Commerce Come Together by Riaz Haq
Employment Opportunities Members can post information about employment opportunities within their own companies or offer suggestions relating to employment to fellow NEDians.	4	Jan 21 Reply by Sohail Sarwar Tahir
Opportunities in Pakistan Many in the NEDian diaspora who have been away from home for a while often think about returning. This forum is meant to discuss the opportunities and downsides of returning to Pakistan. Members are encouraged to share the experience in a rational way weighing the positives and the negatives of such a move.	3	Jun 25 Reply by Syed Ahsan Ali
Science and Technology Education in Pakistan The quality of Science & Technology education has a direct impact on the economic, social, military and political strength and international standing of a nation. The nations that dominate the world today and the new emerging powers have on thing in common: their focus on world-class institutions of higher learning in science and technology. The obvious examples are the universities in US and Western Europe and the IIT system in India. What is your view of the state of science & tech education in Pakistan? How does NED stack up versus IIT? What can be done to enhance it? Please discuss it with focus on understanding the causes and finding possible solutions.	6	Jun 28 Circle! The Social Network of Pakistan by Faisal
Visa, Immigration and related discussion This forum is designed to allow exchange of ideas on topics related to various governments rules regarding visa (including F1, H1B etc) and legal ways for NEDians who wish to work or travel in various countries.	2	Apr 5 Some foreign students get extended stay by Asim Raja
NEDians Community News This forum is designed to keep NEDians informed of various events and occasions of celebrations or sadness experienced by the NEDian community. Hopefully, we'll see mostly good news here.	9	Jul 19 NEDian Aziz ul Matin, Class of 1956, Passes Away in Virginia, USA by Riaz Haq

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2008 International Multitopic Conference (INMIC) at Bahria University (Karachi Campus)

Deer NEDians, 12th IEEE International Multitopic Conference (IEEE INMIC 2008) will be held at Bahria University Karachi, Pakistan on 23-24 December 2008. This conference will be jointly organized by Bahria University, Karachi Campus and IEEE Karachi Section. INMIC is being held regularly on yearly basis and has become one of the leading conferences in Pakistan for professionals and researchers in the field of Science & Technology in general and Engineering in particular. It is envisaged tha… Continue

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"Normally they (Six members of India's Parliament) are in jail, serving time for crimes ranging from extortion and kidnapping to murder. The Indian constitution allows them out on bail to attend important parliamentary votes. But the sight of convicted murderers entering the parliamentary chamber won't be the most edifying of spectacles." So says a BBC report this morning. In the wake of the Communist Party's pull-out from the Indi… Continue

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