About Us

Donors of PakScholars.Org:

PakScholars.Org has been operational through donations given by the Pakistani scholars in Austria. The websote was launched in Jan. 2005 with the help of scholars of first batch who committed to provide the funds for operational costs. After the expiration of our first contract, we collected contributions for the second time and did a contract for 5 years so we don't have to collect the money every year. The list of scholars who contributed for PakScholars.Org is given below:

Donors Feb. 2005- Feb. 2006:
Basheer Ahmad, Mahmood Saleem, Khurram Aziz, Abid Ali Minhas, Jamshed Hashim, Arjumand Durrani, Tahira Sultana, Zahid Hussain, Muhammad Farooq, Amir Hayat, Safeeullah Soomro, Saleh Mohammad, Arshad Khaokar

Donors Mar. 2006- Mar. 2011:
Naveed Riaz, Shuaib Karim, Zahid Hussain, Safeeullah Soomro, Imran Malik, Zahid Muneer, Pirzada Zaid, Farhan Sheikh, Miraj M Jan, Amir Hayat, Muhammad Mudasser, Sajjad A. Madani, Ghulam Jaffer, Muddassir Malik, Bilal Zaka, Aneesa Sultan, Tahir Sultana, Muhammad Ilyas, Faiza Iftekhar, Jamshed Hashim, Fatima Bint-e-Munir, Saadia Abid, Mohammad Naeem

The PakScholars Team thank all these respectable scholars for funding this initiative to help Pakistani students in general and HEC scholars in particular.

Management Team:

Dr. Amir Hayat, NUST
I have completed my PhD studies from the Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communication, Technical University Graz, Austria. My area of research was Interoperable Electronic Identity Management System. In Pakistan, I am working as head of computing deparment at NUST - School of Electrical Engg. and Computer Science - SEECS ( formerly known as NIIT ). I did my undergrad from Univ. of Engg. and Tech., Peshawar in 95. Afterwards I worked with a multinational consulting company Kampsax International A/s for 3 years. In 1999 I went to USA for further studies. I did my MS in Information Systems Technology from the George Washington University in Washington D.C. During and after my studies I also worked in different organizations for about three years. Because of my interest in the database field, I also completed Oracle Certified Professional Database Administrator certification in US. In 2002 I came back to Pakistan and joined COMSATS in Abbottabad, also my home town. Then I got an opportunity to work with SEECS so came to Rawalpindi where I am currently located.
amir@pakscholars.org

Muhammad Saqib, Abbottabad (Webmaster)
I am Saqib. Born and raised in Abbottabad. Currently I am doing my Masters in UK. I did my Bachelors in Information Technology at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbottabad, Pakistan. Along with my studies I am also working on few projects with MAXIMISEIT & XPERT TECHNOLOGIES, it is a leading software house in United Kingdom. I like software development in general, but web development is some thing that I am passionate about. I have already completed several projects and some are in the pipeline. If you are interested take a look at some of them.
webmaster@pakscholars.org (+92)-300-564-3667
http://www.mycplus.com/

My Work
http://www.safecom.cn/
http://shenztech.com/
http://www.adsltech.com/ (Providing support)
http://www.xpert-tech.com/
http://www.ciit-atd.edu.pk/ (Worked with a team)

So far we are only operational in Austria. We have our representatives in each city of Austria. Following is the list of our city representatives.

Khurram Aziz, Vienna
Born in 1973, I received my B.Sc. (Hons) degree in electrical engineering from University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore in 1997 and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from National University of Singapore, in 2002.

I started my professional career as a software engineer at Softech Systems (pvt) Ltd, Lahore in 1998. During my career in the software industry, I worked at various places in Pakistan (NetSol), USA (NetSol and CFS) and Singapore (Fujitsu and Mobiwave). I switched from software development to teaching and joined Informatics, Lahore . Later I worked as a Lecturer in Air University, Islamabad before coming to Vienna . Currently I am working on my PhD thesis in the Institute of Broadband communications of the Technical university of Vienna. My main area of research is the simulation of large-scale hybrid networks, with main focus on Global Ethernet.
khurram@pakscholars.org +43-664-382-8877

Murtaza Yousaf, Innsbruck
I am Murtaza and I belong to Lahore. I completed my PGD and M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of the Punjab, Lahore with distinctions. After MSc i have been involved in software development work at Nextbridge (Pvt.) Lahore for some time. Since it was difficult to continue my  studies with the full time job, I decided to join the teaching profession. In Pak. I am a faculty member of IBA and PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Currently I am in Innsbruck, a beautiful city of Austria, for my PhD studies. My area of research is Network Support for Grid Computing.
murtaza@pakscholars.org

Shahzad Sarwar, Vienna
Shahzad Sarwar received B.Sc. Engineering (Civil) degree from University of Engineering and Technology (U.E.T) Taxila in 1998 and MS Computer Science degree from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 2004. He worked as lecturer in Computer Science department of University of Central Punjab . Currently he is working on his PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Harmen R. van As in the Institute of Broadband Communications of the Vienna University of Technology, Austria . His main area of research is the Optical Burst Switching (OBS).
shahzad.sarwar@pakscholars.org

Our Future Plans

Our future plans are to develop this website into a portal that contains information from all the countries where Pakistani students are studying. For the first step, we would like to provide information about those countries where scholars from Higher Education Commission are studying. Later on we will expand to other countries. How long it will take? I can't really say at the moment. It depends on if I can find people in other countries who can provide detailed information. Also on the amount of time that I can spare for this website.

If you are studying in Austria or any other country and would like to provide relevant information, please contact me on the above e-mail address. It will be a great help to other Pakistani scholars and students.