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Nov 13, 2018 – The first Pakistani female Geo-environmentalist, Hydro-toxicologist and water conservation expert, Professor Dr. Khalida M. Khan has been titled as the ‘Postdoc Strategic Researcher of the Year’ 2018-2019 in ‘Sustainable Water Conservation’. The resolution to bestow the prestigious title upon the distinct Pak academician was adopted during the annual proceedings of National Postdoctoral Appreciation Week(NPAW-2018), by the conjoint Board of Inter-regional Directors of Asia-Oceania Post-Doctoral Academia (AOPDA) and SAIRI Postdoc Multiversity for the United Nation SDGs studies, and subsequently the dual-esteem title with a medal of high institutional contour was scheduled to be conferred on November 10^th to mark the annual commemoration of UNESCO’s World Science Day for Peace and Development (WSDPD-2018).

Prof. Khalida Khan, held the UNESCO chair with a portfolio comprising of ‘Conservation and Watershed Management’ from 2010-2014.

Khalida M. Khan presented a postdoc thematic model on ‘Sub-soil Hydro-Toxicology’ during the NPAW proceedings of 2018, which was primed for the United Nation’s World Day of Science for Peace and Development (UN-WDSPD) 2018.

The research indicators on subsoil hydro-toxicology alarmingly point out cataclysmic hazards of the prevalent sewerage drainage practices which essentially and evidently pose an undue and disproportionate burden on the surface and sub-surface soil, which eventually leaches down to the water table, henceforth becoming a serious threat for the water reserves.

A firm and unswerving advocate of the interlinked and interdependent correlation between eco-conservancy and environmental sustainability, Prof. Khalida M. Khan has now become an icon by becoming the recipient of the prestigious international title of ‘Sustainable Water Conservation Strategistfor 2018-2019.

Professor Khalida M. Khan’s mentored postdoctoral research was directed and supervised under the cross-disciplinary Asian PI, Prof. Dr. Aurangzeb Al Hafi, who is responsible for initiating and formulating the conceptual baselines on the subject-matter of Sub-soil Hydro-Toxicology.

The environmental sustainability expert from Punjab University Lahore, Dr. Khan is a designated postdoctoral research moderator in ‘Dynamics of Environmental Sustainability, Integrated Mountains’ Geomorphology and Ortho-Watersheds’ of SAARC region at the US-based National Postdoctoral Association (NPA).

After attaining the esteemed institutional award, Dr. Khalida M. Khan has invited the present Pakistani government to come-forth to join her in the policy frame-working to cope with the impeded set-back hazardously posed by the sub-soil hydro-toxification, since the P.M., in his opening speech, has shown his concerns with reference to the water conservation and certain water-related health issues.

High profile academicians from across the region including Justice (R) Dr. S. S. Paru L.L.D. (Indonesia), Prof. Dr. Martin Haigh (Oxford), Prof. Dr. Zafar Saeed Saify, Dr. Madhulika (Malaysia), Dr. Andrew Taber (Washington), Dr. Takahi  (Japan), Dr. Wickrema Weerasooriya, Dr. Salawal Salah (Sri Lanka), Dr. Bareera N.B., Dr. Azam Sheikh and Dr. Rabia Faridi pay their  gratitude to Pak academia on the magnanimous triumph and wish for success in future to further the UN goals concerning the science and peace in Pakistan and abroad.

The milestone achievement would not only open new research horizons for the United Nations’ SDGs Perspectives at higher institutional levels globally, but also help forming up a complete vista-spectrum for Pakistan to become a regional leader in the spheres of relevance.

For entirety of the source-materials please visit:

https://www.unwsdpd.org/2018/11/11/observance/

https://aopda.org/category/news

https://www.nationalpostdoc.org/page/2018NPAW#AO

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