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Friday, April 13, 2012
Pakistani student brings home int’l awardISLAMABAD: A Pakistani student has won silver medal by bagging second position in an international environment competition held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Muhammad bin Qasim, a Class 8 student at the Pak-Turk International School and Colleges, Peshawar got the medal at the 6th International Environmental Project Olympiad which took place on April 4-8, said a statement issued on Thursday. Over 100 projects from students of 42 different countries were presented in the contest. Qasim, 14, represented a research on a plant to find out treatment for patients suffering from diabetes. The plant called Tecoma Stans (Yellow Elder) is found in abundance in the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province. staff report
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