25-year-old woman is Pakistan’s youngest PhD: Gulf Times

Published: Thursday, 8 May, 2008, 05:07 AM Doha Time

LAHORE: A 25-year-old gold medalist from Punjab University, Shaheen Nazir, a female, has become Pakistan’s youngest PhD degree holder in mathematics as Government College University’s Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences declared the results of its third batch of five successful candidates here this week.
The other four PhD holders, all male candidates, are: Zahid Raza of Hafizabad, Imran Ahmad of Lahore, Hani Shaker of Faisalabad and Khurram Shabbir of Lahore. The two earlier batches included three and five PhD scholars.
The theses of the third batch candidates have been evaluated by foreign mathematical scientists specially engaged by the school.
They included Prof Dr Alexander Suciu from the US, Prof Dr Andras Nemethi from Hungary, Prof Dr Stefan Papaelidima from Romania and Prof Dr Laurentiu Paunescue from Australia.

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