{"id":17393,"date":"2023-10-24T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/education-is-not-an-option-but-a-necessity-coas-general-asim-munir\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:00:09","slug":"education-is-not-an-option-but-a-necessity-coas-general-asim-munir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/education-is-not-an-option-but-a-necessity-coas-general-asim-munir\/","title":{"rendered":"Education is not an option but a necessity: COAS General Asim Munir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-role=\"article_content\">\n<p><strong>News Desk:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD:<\/strong> The annual convocation week of the National University of Sciences &amp; Technology (NUST) commenced at the University\u2019s main campus in Islamabad on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman NUST Board of Governors, General Syed Asim Munir, NI (M), Chief of Army Staff (COAS) graced the occasion as Chief Guest at the inaugural \u201cMaster Convocation Ceremony\u201d and conferred medals upon distinction holders.<\/p>\n<p>Bachelor\u2019s, Master\u2019s, and PhD students received degrees during the course of convocation week. Degrees are being awarded to over 3,500 graduates from all NUST Schools at the main campus in the 7 core disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>While addressing the graduates, COAS extended his heartiest felicitations to graduates, their parents and faculty. He commended NUST for developing a conducive ecosystem for teaching and learning \u2013 one that nurtures brilliant minds, who are fully poised to serve the nation.<\/p>\n<p>COAS emphasized that education is not an option but a necessity. He highlighted that today is the beginning of a new chapter in students\u2019 lives, which heralds a significant change that demands greater responsibility. He emphasized that this newfound responsibility should manifest in their personality and choices in the journey ahead.<\/p>\n<p>COAS remarked that it is now incumbent upon them to figure out and analyze the challenges facing the country and put their intellectual resourcefulness into finding their solutions. Earlier upon arrival at NUST, COAS was received by Rector NUST.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Desk:\u00a0 ISLAMABAD: The annual convocation week of the National University of Sciences &amp; Technology (NUST) commenced at the University\u2019s main campus in Islamabad on Monday. Chairman NUST Board of Governors, General Syed Asim Munir, NI (M), Chief of Army Staff (COAS) graced the occasion as Chief Guest at the inaugural \u201cMaster Convocation Ceremony\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.quettavoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Army-Chief-at-NUST.jpeg?resize=1280,854&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quetta-zila-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}