Central Library of 'The Islamia University of Bahawallpur, Pakistan'

(Main Gate of Central Library)

Aim & Mission

Central Library of The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, presents welcoming atmosphere for the students and plays a central role in academic career of a student. The aim of library is to provide access to materials and information resources which help the students for their studies, in a supportive learning environment. New students are also being invited for a short orientation program in the library, at the beginning of every first semester, and are encouraged to ask staff for advice or assistance at any time during the opening hours.

(Outside View of Central Library, IUB)

Library Timings

From 8:00 am to 10: 00 pm during the semester. However, timings at the weekends are observed as: Saturday 8:00 am to 7:00 pm and Sunday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. On gazetted holidays it will be off.

(Inside view of Central Library, IUB)

Library holds 225000 books, manuscripts, CDs collection. A wide variety of online full-text journal's databases are available including HEC PERN project. Thousands of digital books can be accessed through library website on a variety of subjects. Many of these digital resources can be accessed off campus while others are available through library IPs only. Library comprised of periodicals, reference books, government publications, sections.

(Inside view of Central Library, IUB) 

In addition to the central library there are constituent libraries, which can provide equal opportunity use. These libraries include Engineering College Library, Fareed Campus Library, Abbasia Campus Library and Science Reference Library. Students also have the privilege to use these libraries.

(Chief Librarian of the Central Library of The Islamia University of Bahawalpur)

LIBRARY DISCIPLINE

Damages done to library materials (folding, underlining, tearing of pages, etc.) are being assessed by Chief Librarian and his decision will be final.

Gossiping, mobile calls, sleeping, eating, drinking, smoking, chatting, combined study and disturbing the order of library furniture are strictly prohibited in the library.

Personal books and other library material are not allowed to bring in the library.

Library membership would be suspended or cancelled along with penalty in the following cases:

1. Non payment of library fine
2. Misconduct with library staff
3. Theft of library material
4. Any kind of disturbance in library
5. Breach of established library norms

Mobile phones can be a particular nuisance to quiet study, and therefore you are requested to SWITCH OFF your mobiles when entering the Library.

SUMMARY

Name:	Islamia University Central Library
Address:	Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
City:	Bahawalpur
State/Province:	Punjab (Pakistan)
Telephone:	(621) 925122
Founded in:	1975
Total Volumes:	92,000
Microfilms:	50
Periodicals:	150

The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Pakistan

(Main Gate of Baghdad-ul-Jadeed Campus, IUB)

Bahawalpur has always been a seat of higher learning. Uch Sharif (a nearby ancient town) had one of the largest universities in the world where scholars from all over the world used to come for studies. As a continuation of this tradition a religious university (Jamia Abbasia) was established at Bahawalpur in 1925, following the academic pursuits of Jamia Al-Azhar, Egypt. The renowned scholars spread the beacon of Islam by teaching Tafseer of Quran, Hadith, Fiqh, and History along with other contemporary subjects.

In view of the changing scenario, Jamia Abbasia was declared as a general University in 1975, and renamed as The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. Initially, it started functioning at Abbasia and Khawaja Fareed Campuses with ten departments. In order to construct a modern and self-contained campus, 1250 acres of land was allotted to the University on Hasilpur Road about eight kilometers away from the city centre.

((Vice Chancellor of IUB with Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif)

The sand dunes have been converted into well-built faculties, green lawns, hostels, residential colony, farms and orchards. It is known as Baghdad-ul-Jadeed Campus. The University started with ten departments but now this number has increased to 40 offering 53 disciplines. While planning to commence new departments and disciplines due consideration is given to market as well as area specific needs. Consequently, apart from conventional disciplines of Religious Affairs, Languages, Social and Basic Sciences; education is being imparted in the areas of Business Administration, Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary Sciences, Computer, Law, Education, Fine Arts, Pharmacy, Life Sciences and Sports Sciences, etc. The University values quality education rather than quantity. Towards achievement of this end a team of highly qualified and committed faculty members have been engaged. Moreover, research is being made corner stone of the educational philosophy.

In order to provide opportunities of higher education to the youth at their door step, two campuses were established at Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalnagar in 2005. Initially, Departments of Management Sciences and Computer Science & Information Technology were established for which response was very encouraging. The number of Departments at Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan Campuses have been increased to seven and six respectively. The university is currently ranked at No. 13 in general category of HEC universities.

Facilities

Wireless/Wi Fi Internet

Wi-Fi Internet facility is available in all campuses of IUB. Most of computers available in offices only are equipped with wireless LAN Card. Students, researchers, staff and teachers of library can use this facility at any time.

All hostels (Boys/Girls, Faculty Hostels and Executive Hostel) are also have this wireless internet facility 24 hrs a day. It provides 10MB/s speed of wireless internet.

Academic departments

1. University College of Engineering & Technology (UCET)

§  Computer Systems Engineering

§  Electronic Engineering

§  Electrical Engineering

§  Telecommunication Engineering

2. Faculty of Science

§  Department of Computer Sciences

§  Department of Physics

§  Department of Chemistry

§  Department of Mathematics

§  Department of Statistics.

§  Department of Geography.

§  Department of Life Sciences

§  Department of Bio-Chemistry Bio-Technology

§  University College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences

§  University College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

§  Cholistan Institute of Desert Studies

3. Faculty of Arts

§  Department of Economics

§  Department of English

§  Department of Library and Information Science

§  Department of Media Studies

§  Department of Political Science & International Relations

§  Department of Saraiki

§  Department of Urdu and Iqbaliat

§  Department of IR

4. Faculty of Islamic Learning

§  Arabic

§  History & Pakistan Studies

§  Islamic Studies

§  Law

§  Persian

§  Modern Progressive Center of Excellence in Islamic Studies

5. Faculty of Commerce & Management Sciences

§  Commerce

§  Computer Science & Information Technology

§  Management Sciences

6. Faculty of Education

§  Applied Psychology

§  Education

§  Educational Training

§  Fine Arts

§  Health & Physical Education (Science Sports)

§  Social Work

7. Faculty of Pharmacy & Alternative Medicine

§  Pharmacy

§  University College of Conventional Medicine

8. Sub Campuses

§  Sub Campus in Government Khawaja Farid College Rahim Yar Khan

§  Sub Campus Bahawalnagar

Transport

As the main university campus is away from the city centre, buses and coasters ply to transport the students, teaching and non-teaching staff. The facility is also available at Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalnagar campuses. The university has a transport fleet of 40 buses for students and 04 coasters for teaching staff.

University Hostels

In order to facilitate the students, sufficient hostel accommodation is available in IUB Campuses. Presently, four hostels for boys and six for girls are in use. The accommodation capacity of these hostels is around 5000. All the hostel buildings are equipped with the state of the art facilities.

The following Hostels are in operation for students in Bahawalpur Campuses.:-

Boys Hostels 1) Abu Bakar Hall (Boys Hostel) at Abbasia Campus 2) Umer Hall (Boys Hostel) at Baghdad Campus 3) Ali Hall (Boys Hostel) at Baghdad Campus 4) Iqbal Hall (Boys Hostel) at Government Cooperative Housing Society

Girls Hostels 1) Jinnah Hall (Girls Hostel) at DIG Office Road, behind S.E College 2) Fatima Hall (Girls Hostel) at Baghdad Campus 3) Ayesha Hall (Girls Hostel) at Baghdad Campus 4) Amna Hall (Girls Hostel) at Baghdad Campus 5) Rabia Hall (Girls Hostel) at Abbasia Campus 6) Khatija Hostel (Girls Hostel) at Baghdad Campus (Opening Soon). In addition to above, one Hostel each for Boys & Girls is in operation at Rahim yar Khan and Bahawalnagar Campuses.

The Islamia University offers Luxurious accommodation for its Faculty Members. Currently the Following Hostels are in use:-

1) Executive Hostel Baghdad Campus for Senior Faculty Members 2) Faculty Hostel for Men Baghdad Campus for male Faculty and Administration. 3) Faculty Hostel for Women Baghdad Campus for Female Faculty. 4) Foreign Faculty Hostel Bagdad Campus for Foreign Faculty and Families.

The following facilities are being offered in the Hostels:-

Each Boys Hostel is equipped with:- Mess Hall Laundry Shop Barber Shop Gym Praying area Study Room 24 hrs free Internet access Photocopy Corner Tuck Shop Newspaper Stands Badminton Court Lush Green Lawns

Each Girls Hostel is equipped with:- Mess Hall Beautician Shop Gym Praying area Study Room 24 hrs free Internet access T.V Room Photocopy Corner Tuck Shop Newspaper Stands Badminton Court Lush Green Lawns.

IUB Hostels present a new concept of 'Warden System' where Hostel affairs are managed by a competent and dedicated team of full-time staff, Serving as Facilitators. The system ensures the presence of a Senior Official at each Hostel at all times. The Hostels Administration is headed by the "Chairman Hall Council". The Chief Warden controls all Operations at Boys, Girls & Faculty Hostels at all Campuses. The Chief Warden is assisted by two Wardens (Warden Girls Hostels and Warden Boys Hostels). There are two Assistant Wardens deputed at each of the above mentioned Hostel supported by Assistants, Clerks, Attendants, Mali/Baildars, and Janitors etc.

The above system is to make the Students coming from distant places feel at home and live in a conducive environment for Co-curricular and Extra-curricular activities in addition to his/her studies. The team ensures Facilitation to the Student in addition to keeping strict discipline in all Hostels.

Sutlej River Bahawalpur Pakistan

(Cattle grazing on the banks of the river in Ropar, Punjab)

The Sutlej River (alternatively spelled as Satluj River) is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroad region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan. It is located north of the Vindhya Range, south of the Hindu Kush segment of the Himalayas, and east of the Central Sulaiman Range in Pakistan.

The Sutlej is sometimes known as the Red River. It is the easternmost tributary of the Indus River. Its source is near Lake Rakshastal in Tibet,China, near Mount Kailas, and it flows generally west and southwest entering India through the Shipki La pass in Himachal Pradesh. In Pakistan, it waters the ancient and historical former Bahawalpur state. The region to its south and east is arid, and is known as Cholistan a part of Bahawalpur Division. The Sutlej is joined by the Beas River in Hari-Ke-Patan, Amritsar,Punjāb, India, and continues southwest into Pakistan to unite with the Chenab River, forming the Panjnad River near Bahawalpur. The Panjnad joins the Indus River at Mithankot. Indus then flows through a gorge near Sukkur, flows through the fertile plains region of Sindh, and terminates in the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi in Pakistan.

The waters of the Sutlej are allocated to India under the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan, and are mostly diverted to irrigation canals in India. There are several major hydroelectric projects on the Sutlej, for example, the 1,000 MW Bhakra Dam, the 1,000 MW Karcham-Wangtoo and the 1,530 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydroelectric Dam. There has been a proposal to build a 214-kilometre (133 mi) long heavy freight canal, known as the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL), in India to connect the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers. However, the proposal met obstacles and was referred to the Supreme Court.

The Sutlej was known as Śutudri in the Vedic period.

(Sutlej Valley from Rampur ca. 1857)

History

The Upper Sutlej Valley was once known as the Garuda Valley by the Zhang Zhung, the ancient civilization of western Tibet. The Garuda Valley was the centre of their empire which stretched many many miles into the nearby Himalayas. The Zhang Zhung built a towering palace in the Upper Sutlej Valley called Kyunglung, the ruins of which still exist today nearby to the village of Moincer, southwest of Mount Kailash (Mount Ti-se) Eventually the Zhang Zhung were conquered by the Tibetan Empire.

Today, the Sutlej Valley is inhabited by nomadic ancestors or the Zhang Zhung who live in tiny villages of as yak herders.

(Sutlej River in Kinnaur Valley,Himachal Pradesh)

Geology of the Sutlej

The Sutlej, along with all of the Punjab rivers, is thought to have drained east into the Ganges prior to 5 mya

There is substantial geologic evidence to indicate that prior to 1700 BC at the latest, Sutlej was an important tributary of the Ghaggar-Hakra River (possibly through the Saraswati river) rather than the Indus with various authors putting the redirection from 2500-2000 BC or 5000-3000 BC. Geologists believe that tectonic activity created elevation changes which redirected the flow of Sutlej from the southeast to the southwest. The mighty Saraswati then began to dry up, causing desertification of Cholistan and the eastern part of the modern state of Sindh. The desertification resulted in abandonment of numerous ancient human settlements along the banks of Saraswati.

There is some evidence that the high rate of erosion caused by the modern Sutlej River has influenced the local faulting and rapidly exhumed rocks above Rampur. This would be similar to, but on a much smaller scale then, the exhumation of rocks by the Indus River in Nanga Parbat, Pakistan. The Sutlej river also exposes a doubled inverted metamorphic gradient.

The source of the Sutlej is just west of Mt. Kailash in western Tibet. This is a roadless area, and was first explored by kayak and raft by Russian and German teams in 2004.

The largest modern industrial city along the Sutlej banks is Ludhiana.

Parveen Shakir Urdu Poet (پروین شاکر)

آج کی شاعرہ

پروین شاکر

Kuch To Hawa Bhi Sard Thi Kuch Tha Tera Khayal Bhi
Dil Ko Khushi Ke Sath Sath Hota Raha Malal Bhi


Baat Wo Aadhi Raat Ki Raat Wo Pore Chand Ki
Chand Bhi Ain Chaat Ka Os Pe Tera Jamal Bhi


Sab Se Nazar Bacha Ke Wo Mujh Ko Kuch Aise Dekhta
Aik Dafa To Ruk Gai Gardish-e-Mah-o-Saal Bhi


Dil To Chamak Sakey Ga Kya Phir Bhi Tarash Ke Dekh Lein
Shishaa Garan-e-shehar Ke Hath Ka Yeh Kamal Bhi


Us Ko Na Pa Sake The Jab Dil Ka Ajeeb Haal Tha
Ab Jo PalaT Ke Dekhiyey Baat Thi Kuch Muhaal Bhi


Meri Talab Tha Ek ShaKhs Woh Jo Nahin Mila To Phir
Haath Dua Se Youn Gira Bhool Gaya Sawal Bhi


Shaam Ki Na Samajh Hawa Poch Rahi Hai ik Pata
Mauj-e-Hawa-e-Ku-e-Yaar Kuch To Mera Khayaal Bhi

Today's "Ayat"

Noshi Gilani the Most Renowned Female Urdu Poet Today

(Noshi Gilani)

Noshi Gilani (نوشی گیلانی ) (born in 1964 in Bahawalpur, Pakistan) is an Urdu poet of international fame and a former academic from the Bahawalpur University, Punjab Pakistan.

She is one of the leading Urdu poets in Pakistan and has successfully published five collections of poetry.

In 2008, her poetry was translated into English and her poems were read in the UK, with the Poetry Translation Centre's World Poets' Tour.

She hosted a tribute to folk singer Pathanay Khan, sponsored by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA).

Personal Life

Noshi Gilani settled in San Francisco USA in 1995 but after her marriage to Saeed Khan she decided to move to Australia. She married Saeed Khan, an Australian-based Urdu poet on 25 October 2008 and they currently reside in Sydney Australia. It was reported by her mother Mrs. Sarwar Gilani Sahiba, a professor of Urdu and Persian languages and literature, died in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

بہ احتیاطِ عقیدت بہ چشمِ تر کہنا

!صبا حضور سے حالِ دل و نظر کہنا

حصارِ جبر میں ہوں اور یہاں سے بھی ہجرت

مَیں جانتی ہُوں کہ ممکن نہیں مگر‘ کہنا

میں خاک شہرِمدینہ پہن کے جب نکلوں

تو مُجھ سے بڑھ کے کوئی ہوگا معتبر کہنا

یہ عرض کرنا کہ آقا مِری بھی سُن لیجے

بحبز تمُھارے نہین کوئی چارہ گر کہنا

مَیںاپنی پَلکوں سے لکھتی ہُوں حرفِ نامِ رسُول

مُجھے بھی آگیا لکھنے کا اُب ہُنرکہنا

یہ کہنا اب تو ہمیں تاِب انتظار نہیں

کہ ہم کریں گے مدینے کا کب سفر کہنا

Works

The candour and frankness of her highly-charged poems is unusual for a woman writing in Urdu and she has gained a committed international audience, performing regularly at large poetry gatherings in Pakistan, Australia, Canada and the US. Unknown outside the Pakistani community, the translations here mark her introduction to an English-speaking audience.

She is a member of younger generation of female poets. Her experience of living in US shows a notable impact on her significant number of poems. Living through Diaspora has increased the complexity of her poems and reinforced her sense of female identity and introduced a new revolution against restraint creative writers in Pakistani society.

Poems

§  To catch butterflies...

§  This prisoner breathes

§  The breeze rewrites

§  Can someone bring me my entire being

§  I say nothing anywhere

§  The flower is torn at the heart

Books

§  Mohabatain Jab Sumar Kurna (When you would count affections, 1993)

§  Udas Honay Kay Din Naheen (These are not the days of sadness, 1997)

§  Pehla Lafz Mohabat Likha (The first word was written "Love", 2003)

§  Selected poems like Ay Meeray Shareek-E-Risal-E-Jaan,

§  Hum Tera Intezaar Kurtey Rahey (And I kept waiting you!)(2008)

§  Noshi Gillani poems, Enitharmon Press, (15 Sep 2008), translators: Lavinia Greenlaw; Nukhbah Langah, ISBN 9781904634751

Anthologies

§  Ambreen Salahuddin (2005). Feminism in modern Urdu poetesses (1857- 2000). West Pakistan Urdu Academy.

"Noshi Gilani is the most renowned female Urdu poet today.”

(Noshi Gilani with Ahmed Fraz)

Summary

Born	14 March 1964 Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Occupation	Urdu poet
Nationality	Pakistani
Ethnicity	Punjab Pakistan
Citizenship	USA
Education	MA Urdu literature - Iqbaliat andPersian
Genres	Ghazal; Free verse Nazm
Notable work(s)	Mohabbatein Jab Shumaar Karna
Notable award(s)	Khwaja Farid Award
Spouse(s)	Saeed Khan Saeed Khan
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