7th April 2015, Jamshoro

Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, in collaboration with Institute of Research Promotion, has planned to organize a series of workshops in different major cities of Pakistan in order to inspire and encourage R&D directed towards solving problems of the industry and society. At the end of this series of workshops, policy recommendations about different aspects of the subject matter would be presented to the government for implementation.
Fifth workshop of the series was held with the cooperation of Mehran University Institute of Science, Technology and Development, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro on 7th April 2015. About 50 participants representing universities, R&D organizations and industry attended the workshop. Following participants made presentations / speeches on the occasions.

1. Dr. S. M. Qureshi, former Federal Secretary, Chairman PCST & Vice Chancellor MUET
2. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aslam Uqaili, Vice Chancellor, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET)
3. Prof. Dr. Pir Roshan Shah Rashdi, Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology, MUET
4. Dr. Arabella Bhutto, Co-Director, Mehran University Institute of Science, Technology and Development (MUISTD)
5. Mr. Azhar Rizvi, Vice Chairman, MIT Enterprise Forum, Pakistan
6. Professor Mehtab S. Karim, Research Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA and President, Metropolitan Institute, Karachi
7. Dr. Tariq Bashir, Principal Research Officer, PCST
8. Mr. Rahmat Ullah, Chief Coordinator, Institute of Research Promotion, Lahore

In the consultative and brainstorming session, participants were divided into different groups. Each group was required to deliberate on different as aspects of the subject matter. At the end of the consultative and brainstorming session, leader of the each group made a short presentation about the suggestions their group had made on the topic.