The Advanced Studies and Research Board (ASRB) of the University of Sindh has approved to award degrees of MPhil and PhD to 57 scholars who have successfully completed their research in various disciplines. The board in its 133rd meeting after considering various reports pertaining to thesis and scientific works approved award of 18 PhD and 57 M.Phil degrees to the scholars in the faculties of Social Science, Islamic Studies, Pharmacy, Natural Science, Commerce & business administration and Arts and humanities. Chaired by SU vice-chancellor Prof. Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat at his office, the meeting was attended by director graduate studies Dr. Sarfraz Ali Tunio, deans of various faculties Prof. Dr. Akhtar Hussain Mughal, Prof. Dr. Abdullah Dayo, Prof. Dr. Hafiz Munir Ahmed, Prof. Dr. Zareen Abbasi, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro, Prof. Dr. Imdad Ali Ismaili, Prof. Dr. Aijaz Ali Wasan, Prof. Dr. Hakim Ali Kanasero, Prof. Dr. Abdul Sattar Almani, Prof. Dr. Wazir Ali Baloch, Prof. Dr. Arfana Begum Mallah, Dr. Khalil Khumbhati, Dr. Shahzad Ahmed Memon and Registrar Ghulam Muhammad Bhutto. Those cleared for PhD degrees are: Noor un Nisa Baloch in Commerce, Basheer Ahmed, Nazir Ahmed in Islamic Culture, Abdul Jabbar Nizamani, Ghulam Fatima Babar in Sindhi, Fareeduddin Pathan, Sajida Parveen Kaimkhani, Wajeeh Ul Hassan Siddiqui in Urdu, Asma Bano Shaikh in Economics, Youaab Nayyar in Development Studies, Muhammad Ramzan Kolachi in International Relations, Abdul Jaleel Mirjat Baloch, Ali Murad Lajwani, Hafeezullah Baloch, Sada Hussain Shah in Sociology, Ahmed Ali Samejo, Nadir Ali Shah and Ghulam Bushra Siyal in Zoology. As many as 57 MPhil degrees were approved for the scholars which include: Sohaib Ahmed Indhar, Musawar Sikander Makol, Sibghatullah Saddar of Islamic Culture, Ghulam Ali Machi, Shagufta Sami of Business Administration, Farzana Mughal, Mahwish Saleem Shaikh, Muhammad Moosa, Naheed Afroz Memon, Nazir Ahmed of Education, Ghulam Murtaza Soomro, Nazar Hussain Chandio of Arabic, Abdul Hameed Kunbhar of English Linguistics, Bibi Gulnaz Shah of English Literature, Naheed Shah Naqvi of Sindhi, Abdul Khalique Pathan of Urdu, Badar ul din Kolachi, Javed Akber Khan of Economics, Pirah Zulfiqar Hakro of Pakistan Study, Marvi Panhwar of Psychology, Ghulam Nabi Gadehi, Uzma Kanwal Qureshi of Public Administration, Abdullah Memon, Ameet Kumar Lohana, Gulnaz Leghari, Mahwish Shabir Abbasi, Muneeba Zubair of Analytical Chemistry, Amber Mehmood Arain of Biochemistry, Waheed Ali Memon of Biotechnology, Sadaf Jatoi, Seema Liaquat of Botany, Imran Pathan, Maria Soomro, Moez Ahmed Malik of Computer Science, Bushra Memon of Information Technology, Abdul Jabbar, Fateh Ali Baloch, Muhammad Afzal Jamali of Geology, Toshaba Channa of Health & Physical Education, Khuda Dad of Mathematics, Ameet Kumar, Maryam Ahmed Channa, Saira Falak Sahito of Microbiology, Artat Hamza Qureshi, Ihsan Ali Mallah, Mansoor Ahmed Memon, Noor Muhammad Shaikh, Saher Saleem of Physics, Noor-ul-Hiba Qureshi od Statistics, Asif Iqbal Rajput, Muhammad Azam Qureshi, Mudasir Ali Soomro, Madiha Qureshi, Naila Bhangar of Zoology and Farah Bilal, Nadia Shamim Mughal and Fozia Rustmani of Pharmaceutics.