The Pakistan Nuclear Society (PNS) has signed an agreement of Reciprocal Membership Privileges and Cooperation with Pakistan Physical Society (PPS) on 26th May, 2021, after getting approvals from the Executive Councils of respective Societies. In a simple ceremony held in Nuclear Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Peshawar, the President of PNS Dr. Imtinan Elahi Qureshi and PPS President, Prof. Dr. Anisa Qamar, signed the Agreement on the sidelines of one-day seminar organized by PNS at NIFA on ‘Applications on Nuclear Techniques in Industry’. Director NIFA, Dr. Gul Sanat Shahand Members of the PNS Council, Mr. Waqar Ahmad Butt, Dr. Niaz Ahmad, Mr. Ghulam Sarwar and Syed Zahid Hussain were present on the occasion. The main provision of the Agreement is that PNS will provide same privileges to PPS Members as its own members such as reduced conference fee, prices of publications and publishing of scientific articles etc. Reciprocally the PPS will also treat PNS members as its own members with respect to such privileges. Additionally, the two Societies will help each other in their individual programmes as well as conduct joint activities where appropriate.
The two Societies have been operating for the last 30 years in Pakistan and organizing academic events in accordance with their respective mandates and by-laws. The collective membership of two Societies runs into thousands and includes the top-most scientists in the disciplines of Physics, Computer Sciences, Engineering and Nuclear Technology. In view of the overlapping interests and memberships of two Societies it was considered advisable to create synergy and pool resources for maximizing the benefits to members of both Societies. Speaking on the occasion, the Presidents of both Societies reiterated their commitment to follow-up on the provisions of the Agreement with the help of their distinguished colleagues in respective Executive Councils.
