Harf (Study Circle)- First Session:

On September 25th2019 حرف“Harf”(a Peshawar based study-circle)

embarked upon its intellectual journey by holding its first session at the Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar. The main aims of Harf(حرف) are to inculcate reading habits in both young and old and to make them tolerant towards different ideologies, philosophies, perspectives, opinions, worldviews and beliefs. The session was started by Mr. Aslam Mir with some verses from Quran, surah Ha mim(surah n0. 41) verses 33 to 36 and their translation and explanation, and later he recited a poem of Mavlana Jalal udin Rumi from Divan e shams Tabriz(Ghazl no.436) .Mr., Ibrahim Mir, a student of MS Management, presented a detailed review of a novel The Architect‘s Apprentice by Elif Shafak. Mr. Raja Kashif, MS Civil Engineering, reviewed the book Tazkia –e-Nafs(purification of the soul) by Amin Ahsan Islahi in which he covered most of the important aspects of the book. Sanaullah, A student of ImSciences, spoke about the book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert kiyosaki and briefed the audience about the mindset of rich and poor people toward asset creation. Muhtad ullah khan, a student of BSc Economics in IMsciences, Peshawar is an author of three self- published novelettes, briefed the audience about his upcoming novelette “An Emotional Fallacy” Mr. Sikandar Tangi, assistant professor at the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar ended the session with his detailed review of Paul Collier’s book The Bottom Billion. The session was attended by Mr. Tariq (Lecturer in PS), Prof. Sultan Rahim, Arshad Ali (lecturer in PS), Prof. Hasan Mustafa and students of the institute. Photography of the session was done by Tanver Malik.