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Former names | Government Viqar-un-Nisa College for Women, Rawalpindi |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 2022 |
| Chancellor | Governor of the Punjab |
| Location | , , Pakistan |
| Website | www |
Government Viqar-un-Nisa Women University, formerly known as Government Viqar-un-Nisa College for Women, Rawalpindi is a public women's university located in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. [1]
It was founded in the early 1950s by Begum Viqar un Nisa Noon, wife of Feroz Khan Noon. Begum Viqar-un-Nisa Noon also founded the Viqar-un-Nisa Noon Girls' Higher Secondary School in Rawalpindi. This college was the first established part of the school, but it has since then been taken over by the government. Today, the college remains a government institution while the school is still private. [2]
In 2012, the Science Block was named after Arfa Karim. [3]
In July 2021, this college for women was upgraded to a university. [4] [5] In the years after 2010 more degrees began to be awarded in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University and links with Heidelberg University in Germany were also formed.
Urdu and English are taught at the postgraduate level.
Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon, best known as Feroze Khan, was a Pakistani politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Pakistan from 16 December 1957, until being removed when the President Iskandar Ali Mirza imposed martial law, though he himself got ousted in the 1958 Pakistani military coup.
Nurpur Noon is a village situated near Bhalwal in Sargodha District, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah was a Pakistani writer and journalist. She was a pioneer of Pakistani literature and journalism in English, and also a pioneer of feminism in Pakistan. She was Pakistan's first female editor and publisher, and the country's first female columnist writing in English. Zaibunnisa Street in Karachi was named after her.
Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa (Urdu: ارفع کریم رندھاوا, Punjabi: ارفع کریم رندھاوا; 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004. She was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for her achievement. Arfa kept the title until 2008 and went on to represent Pakistan on various international forums, including the TechEd Developers Conference. She received Pakistan's highest literary award, the Presidential Pride of Performance from General Pervez Musharraf in 2005. A science park in Lahore, the Arfa Software Technology Park, is named in her honour. At the age of 10, Arfa was invited by Bill Gates to visit Microsoft's headquarters in the United States. She died in 2012, aged 16, from a cardiac arrest.
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Viqarunnisa comes from pasting the words "Viqar un Nisa", and may refer to:
Viqarunnisa Noon School & College, also known as VNSC, is an all-girls higher secondary school and college in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It has 25,000 students at four campuses in the city. It is named after Viqar un Nisa Noon.
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First ever public sector Women University in the Upper Sindh was established at Rohri, in the name of Begum Nusrat Bhutto by the government of Sindh through the act of parliament. Begum Nusrat Bhutto (BNB) Women University is located at the National Highway N-5 bypassing Rohri city of Sukkur District. It is exclusively for women, having the arts, science, business, and computer science faculties. Initially the departments of Education, English, mass communication, business, Mathematics and Biological and Human Sciences have started their teaching programmes. The construction work of the university is looked after by the project director appointed by Government of Sindh and is carried out by M/s Global Engineering Services Rawalpindi, Currently the construction work is at its full swing.
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Noon is a surname and Punjabi Jat clan of India and Pakistan. They are also found in Europe, and North America. It can also be a variant of Noone, a surname of gaelic origin.
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