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Swabi varsity VC honoured

By Bureau report
February 13, 2018

PESHAWAR: The first vice-chancellor of Women’s University Swabi, Prof Dr Khanzadi Fatima Khattak, has been nominated for the United Kingdom’s prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Fellowship. Achieving the status denotes an outstanding contribution to the advancement in the discipline of chemical sciences, said a press release.

The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. In Pakistan, Prof Khattak is amongst the few notable academics who have been awarded this fellowship. Dr Khanzadi is a professor of chemistry, having received her PhD degree from HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi.