‘Co-curricular activities enhance students’ learning skills’
By Bushra Makhdoom

ISLAMABAD—The co-curricular activities enhance the learning skills of students and induce creativity in them.
These views were expressed by Vice Chancellor AIOU Prof. Dr. Mehmood-ul-Hassan Butt on the closing ceremony of “Vice Chancellor Excellence Award 2007” held here Wednesday.
The Naat and English debate contest were held today while the competition of Urdu debate, Urdu Mazahia Nazam and national songs were held on the first day of ceremony. Prof. Munawar Hussain Sulehri, Regional Director, AIOU Rawalpindi Division while addressing the participants appreciated the student’s efforts and theirspirit to participate in the competition.
Nabeela student of MBA got first prize in Naat contest. While in Urdu debate competitions, Wajid Hamid got first position, Hafiz Qaiser Naveed second and Khurram Shahzad got third position.
While in Urdu Mazahia Nazam contest, Sikandar AlamKhan got first position, Saqib Ahsan Saqi second andSaadia Zahid got third position.
In National Songs contest Zeeshan Rasheed, KanwalZahra Rizvi and Asima Jabeen got first, second and thirdpositions respectively. The students of the AIOU study centres situated inRawalpindi region participated in these contests. The whole event was organized under the aegis of AIOU, Regional Campus, Rawalpindi. Mehmood-ul-Hassan Butt distributed the cash prizesand shields among the successful participants on the closing ceremony.