RECORDER REPORT

HYDERABAD: Speakers in the conclusion ceremony of 2-day international moot on “Business, Economics and Information Technology” organized by Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Campus, Dadu, University of Sindh have advocated that every university in Pakistan should establish entrepreneur centre across the country to promote culture of small business enterprises, to facilitate a group of select Pakistani business experts to visit Stanford University, UK and other renowned world universities with excellent entrepreneur centres to study business models with an objective to replicate them in Pakistan, to invite officials of Small Business Enterprises Development Authority of Pakistan (SMEDA) to the business schools at the universities to gain theoretical and conceptual input to be incorporated in the national policy frameworks, to set up incubation centres at all universities and technical colleges to encourage budding entrepreneurs in Pakistan, to arrange regular visits of business academicians to the business departments at the universities to develop long term university-industry linkage and introduce CPEC related subjects in business, commerce and economics departments and institutes at universities to boost entrepreneurship in Pakistan. These proposals were forwarded by all participating national and international scholars in consensus in form of formal recommendations of this global moot.

A befitting conclusion ceremony was organized to wrap up the proceedings of the moot.

The ceremony was presided over by Prof Dr Anwar Ali Shah G Syed, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Campus, Dadu, University of Sindh who also was the host of the event. The others who shared stage with Dr Shah included Prof Dr Nadeem Ahmed Bhatti (Canada), Dr Mehmood Shah (United Kingdom), Dr Friedrich Christian Bolhmer (Germany), Dr Mushtaq Sajid, (AJK), Dr Ehsanullah Malik (Lahore), Prof Dr Tahir Hijazi (Islamabad), Prof Amanullah (Rawalpindi) and Dr Zahida Azam Abro (Larkana).

In a message read out at the ceremony Prof. Dr. Fateh Muhammad Burfat, VC-SU congratulated the organizers upon successful completion of the conference and stressed the need for more such moots in continuation on regular basis to ensure transfer of emerging knowledge in the thematic areas.

Dr Shah informed that 360 papers were received for the moot, out of which 260 were accepted for presentation and were also included the book of abstracts.