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Textile Institute of Pakistan is a group of very diverse people, coming from various backgrounds, to acquire education in that far from the city of Karachi. And we as students have always nourished a common soft spot in our hearts for those kids, who don’t get a chance to study, and the ones who get a chance but cant utilize it due to lack of resources.

One such institute is a school at Ghagar village near our institute, as Government Secondary School at Ghagar village. We thought of a literacy drive where we collected few books from our institute and our colleagues wholeheartedly contributed in the cause, as I said that we nourish a common soft spot for those kids who get a chance but cant make most of it due to lack of resources, we thought of helping those kids.

Our team comprised of me, i.e. Mohsin Madad Ali, Rahim Jindani, Ahmed A. Rehman, and Ibad-ul-Islam. We went to the school and met with the authorities and kids and tried to figure there needs what do they want, and we discovered some shocking realities for a school. We found that the Read the rest of this entry »

But it’s a public toilet!! You just cannot. It’s unfair!!

..and wrong.

Following the tradition of representing TIP on a global level that began over a year back, Daoud (TS3) and Noman (TS4) along with Aasim Ahmed of the Textile Research and Innovation Centre, TIP are in Hong Kong at this very moment, gearing up to present their recently written research papers at the 86th Textile Institute World Conference. TIWC is an annual conference that is organized by the Texile Institute, Manchester, UK.

According to available information, one of the research papers, co-authored by Daoud (TS3) and Noman (TS4) focuses on modification of existing spinning machines towards further optimization. The second paper, being presented by Aasim Ahmed is related to modification of fiber surfaces and properties through plasma treatment. Quack! team wishes them a successful trip!

Last year, a group of five students [Muzammil Razzaq(TS07), Aasim Ahmed(TS07), M.Ali Hakeem(08), Furhan Hussain (TMM4) and Zaid Bin Zafar (TMM4)]  from TIP were awarded bursaries by the Textile Institute, UK to attend the 85th Textile Institute World Conference which was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The evening of Nov 14 brought with it TIP’s long awaited annual carnival. The theme, unexpectedly for some people, was ‘Arabian Desert Safari’. It was gutsy of TISF to carry on with the execution of the theme despite a lot of protests, confusion and even boycott threats, since many people believed that there wasn’t much they could do with such a boring theme.

One believes that the TISF did manage to pull off a tough theme such as this one quite well and made sure that most people had a good time. Personally, the best part was that this carnival was attended by a large number of Texperts compared to previous two years’ carnivals. One must admit that their presence not only brightened the event, it also brought back the nostalgia of their golden days spent with each other as well as with current students before they graduated.

With just a few comments that we gathered off the grapevine, Quack! invites you all to give your input as to what you liked best about the event, and vice versa. Read the rest of this entry »

The past two weeks at tip have been really happening with lots of events, incidents and gossips floating. Amidst the critical situation there was an exciting event that took place last Wednesday in the tisf slot. The “hunt for clues” or in other words a “trip to tip in 40 min”’.

Many people took part enthusiastically. The hunting map was displayed in the auditorium where everyone had to gather. By rule only 3 members had to be in a single group and go out on the 52 acre land but it was seen that out sources were also assisting the participants in not only finding the clues but clues were also handed over to them by the sources and the organizers. Practically it was difficult to get above 20 and 32 clues in just 15 minutes but this is tip. Anything can happens here. May be they had a magic carpet or an x-ray machine that they were able to detect those small chits in little time because the map does not allow one to be so fast if they are playing it honestly. The clues were hidden unequally. The faraway places had 2 or 4 and places near the campus had at least 7 clues. Telecommunication helped a lot of people in winning this hunt.

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The TISF caught everyone by surprise this time. According to most people, they put together a show that not only exceeded the majority’s expectations in terms of technical perfection and good time management, but also by setting the bar higher this year in terms of the show’s overall quality. Well done!

The performances were very entertaining, and the audience was as usual responsive, but this time, in an unexpectedly positive manner, if you know what I mean, and it deserves appreciation. Keeping it short, this review cannot be complete without the mention of two brilliant, show stealing performances. First being Read the rest of this entry »

I was just going through a book “Quotes of the Qaid” by Oxford University Press edited by Sharif Al Mujahid and Liaquat Merchant. I found that majority of the Quaid’s thoughts were which we are not following right now. Here, I am putting some of them to give you an idea as to where are we going:

1) “My young friends, students who are present here, let me tell you as one who has always had love and affection for you, who has served you for ten years faithfully and loyally, let me give you this word of warning: you will be making the greatest mistake if you allow yourself to be explained by one political party or another…Your main occupation should be-in fairness to yourself, in fairness to your parents, in fairness to the state-to devote your attention to your studies.” Read the rest of this entry »