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Peshawar: IT competition for students planned

PESHAWAR: A private institute is holding a two-day exhibition, which will also serve as a contest among the students in different spheres of information technology.

Speaking at a news conference here at the Peshawar Press Club on March 10, Zafarullah Khan, director of the Brains Postgraduate College of Information Technology, said that the exhibition to be held on April 27 and 28 at a local hotel was aimed to promote the IT in this part of the country.

Accompanied by provincial IT minister, Hussain Ahmed Kanju, he said that time had come to prepare people to cope with the challenges posed by the information technology revolution in the world. He said that his institute had chalked out strategies to develop the IT-related skills of the students of the province.

According to him, top software industries of the country would take part in the competition. Besides, he added that reputed IT professionals as well as students would take part in programming competition. Likewise, he informed that information technology firms would display their best hardware in the exhibition.
Source: Dawn
Date:3/11/2004