At a time when the world media is firing at Pakistan after the arrest of 11 terror suspects of Pakistani origin in a suspected al-Qaeda plot, the good news from the UK went unheard by the media.
While the world media is spewing poison at Pakistan for being a terror-cultivating country, the same media has not highlighted the performance of a UK-based Pakistani student who achieved the ‘Best Young Researcher of the Year’ award at the biggest Geographical Information Science (GIS) conference, known as GISRUK, that was held in Durham, UK, early this month.
Muhammad Adnan is working as computer research officer in the Spatial Literacy in Teaching & Learning (SPLINT) at the Department of Geography, University College London (UCL). Adnan, in an email conversation, said that he is also doing his PhD from the same university.
“I presented my first-ever research paper in the biggest GIS conference and won the ‘Best Young Researcher of the Year’ prize, which is considered as the national GIS prize in United Kingdom and is the first one received by any Pakistani in the field of GIS,” says Adnan’s email.
Adnan has previously done MSc in Software Engineering from Queen Mary University of London and has skills in NET Technology, Oracle, SQL Server, Java, Visual Basic, WML, etc. His research interests concern how data from a variety of public domain sources can be integrated to develop real-time geo-demographic classifications for public service delivery and decision-making.
This research involves the development of a computer application, which integrates real time feeds of a variety of public domain data from multiple and often disparate sources.
The 17th Annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) Conference was held in the city of Durham, North East England, from April 1-3, 2009. The call for research papers was open and researchers from all over the UK submitted their papers, as it is considered an honour to be called a GISRUK researcher.A Pakistani, running a small restaurant in Manchester, while commenting on the arrest of 11 Pakistanis, said that it is true that Pakistan is a victim of terrorism but this does not mean that all Pakistanis are terrorists and the media must highlight other achievements of the terror-hit country.
He said it would be better to tell the world that many of the Pakistanis living abroad are working hard in various fields and a few have excelled, too.
The ongoing terror incidents in Pakistan have hurt the image of the country abroad and the involvement of a few Pakistanis in the famous 7/7 London bombings that claimed 52 lives and the arrest of 11 terror suspects of Pakistanis origin has drilled another hole in the sinking boat of Pakistan
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