Pro Rector Karachi Campus Rear Admiral Agha Danish, Dean Engineering Sciences Prof. Dr M Altaf Mukati, HOD Computer Science & Engineering Prof. Dr M Khalid Anis, HOD Management Sciences Mr. Naveed M Khan, Dr. Yasmin Nergis Incharge Environmental Sciences, Deputy Director Academics Cdr ( R ) Saleem, Members of faculty Computer Science & Engineering and Management Sciences, Administration Staff of Campus, Ladies & Gentlemen and Boys & Girls.

A very good morning
My Name is Ashfaq Agha, I am holding the responsibility of Director Campus since last three years. I am most happy to be here to welcome you all today . I would like to extend warm welcome to every one present here this morning. I would also like to extend our special thanks to Pro Rector for being with us this morning/afternoon.

In particular, on behalf of Rector, Faculty and staff I want to welcome our new incoming students. Please join hands together with me to welcome each other and shake hand with the student seating next to you either side.

The purpose of today’s session is to familiarize you with academic environment of the University, so that you feel comfortable from the very first day of Academic Session.

This is truly a celebration – a celebration of you. I have no intention to deliver a long speech highlighting all good points of the university, but I leave them for you to experience yourself. However, I would like to take the start of the New Semester as an opportunity to reflect our hopes & dreams for the future. And as Director of the Campus I want to share some of my hopes and dreams, for you. I have a feeling that Spring 2010 will be a wonderful semester. To help make useful most of your BU experience, I have chosen to highlight some essentials. Because I am talking to the leaders of generation next:

ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS

• Learn, experts, pride, Responsibilities
• Planning is key
• Trust your Instinct
• Passion = Profit = Success
• Believe in the beauty of dreams
• Hard work is rewarded
• Team work

PRIDE/ATTITUDE

It is a complex word, sometime it is used in a negative sense – too much pride is looked upon as an arrogance. People with too much pride often fall from grace. Pride is considered as one of the seven deadly sins. I appreciate these connotations but I am not talking here about excessive pride.
But I am talking about a different meaning of pride – the positive meaning.
For me, pride is about self-respect and respect for others. It is about the feeling and celebrating the joy in one’s own accomplishments and the accomplishments of others. Pride is a feeling that accompanies success.

• It is an emotion that allows one to rise to heights one might not have anticipated.
• It is an emotion that – once felt – one always wants to feel again (it is much like love in that way).

As some one wrote: Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from average performance.

This is I want you to quest for and be excellent – and that is why I think pride is so important.
Here are my hopes for you that you should strive for.

• I hope this coming year will give you many opportunities to be proud of yourself.
• I hope you will be proud of your accomplishments in the classroom.
• I hope you will be proud of your many achievements outside the classroom – in the athletic field, in educative experiences outside the classroom, in relationships with new and old friends.
• I hope you will be proud of the decisions you made and the path both taken and not taken.

But, there is another piece to this:

• I am proud of Bahria University and its students. For our new students, I am sure you will do yourselves and the institution proud. I hope, too, that as an institution, we will make you proud.

Not to forget that in all this you are very important. All of you sitting here are STARS, as brilliant as Mars. You are the best and never forget that, rather, give yourself a pat on the back everyday, You are extraordinary; the things that you have already achieved are astonishing. That’s why YOU are here. We don’t make mistakes in graduate admissions. You all belong here and have the potential to thrive here at BU. BU is a great place to be because of all of you, the students.

In closing, You are all, somebody extremely special. I wish you the best in your BU graduate careers. I believe that YOU are the BU generation to open our hearts and minds, to stir this country in right direction.

Before closing, e few more information I would like to share:

• Plagiarism.
• Complaint & Suggestion box.
• Community Service.
• My doors are open for students & I mean, so please leave fingers of your parents, address your issue of the University your self.

SRC

Centre for the activities of students, participate in extra curricular activities and show your hidden talent.
Take this as warning sign:

• Studies will not be easy
• Courses are design to challenge you intellectually
• You have to work hard, work hard and work hard constantly
• Be careful about shot attendance

Thank-you and best wishes to you all.

ASHFAQ AGHA TI (M)
Captain (Retd) PN
Director