The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi in collaboration with Alumni Society and Alumni Chapter, Islamabad organized IBA Alumni Reunion at the Aiwan-e-Sadar, Islamabad. President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain was the chief guest on the occasion. The Reunion was largely attended by dignitaries including Governor Sindh, Muhammad Zubair and IBA Board of Governors. It aims to strengthen the connection between the alumni.
Addressing the audience, President Mamnoon Hussain emphasized the corporate sector to strive for bringing the education sector at par with modern trends by exploiting its experiences and observations besides urging the universities to focus on the applied research to achieve real progress. He was of the view that every nation carries out research works according to its goals and conditions, and their adoption by any other nation in to begets problems. He said that the changes to be occurred in the fields of industry, trade and technology after the operationalization of China Pakistan Economic Corridor could only be tackled through research. He hoped that the educational institutes would create an atmosphere of education and research to play a vibrant role in the society.
He said that the standard of higher education had improved in Pakistan during last few decades as previously the country had very few institutes like IBA but now it was rich of a plenty of higher educational institutes. He said besides modern sciences, strong traditions would also help promote educational institutes as well as the educational process and the role of alumni was crucial in this regard.
Governor Sindh, Muhammad Zubair in his address said that he feels proud of being an IBA alumnus and it is heartening to see so many IBA alumni at top positions around the globe. He appreciated IBA for its state of the art facilities, excellent faculty members and confident students.
Dr. Farrukh Iqbal, Dean & Director IBA in his address informed that IBA has diversified and it now offers a myriad of programs including Accounting & Finance and Liberal Arts.
Earlier, Shahid Shafiq, Alumni Representative on the Board of Governors also spoke on the occasion.
