PAKISTANI STUDENTS CELEBRATES 14th AUGUST

This Friday 14th August 2009, Pakistani Students at CHALMERS has celeberated the Independence Day of their Sweet Homeland with great zest and zeal. This tradition has been followed for past couple of years, and this time around it was arranged on a much bigger scaler as anticipated. It starts of with a Flag raising ceremony and ends oon a small gathering of all the students where views and opinions for the upcoming students have been shared. The contribution from the students in form of foods and milli songs has made this eve the one to be remembered always.. Here are few snapshots from the ceremony

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Pakistani Team holding the T20 World Cup

The moment Shahid Afridi took the last run the Pakistani Flag swirls in the air with pride and at that same very moment the voices enchanting the slogans " Pakistan Zindabad" can be heard from the Lecture Hall room at CHALMERS University where PakChalmerist gathered to watch the Final match on a big projected Screen.

The PakChalmers Accommodation Committee year 2009 has been formed in order to facilitate the upcoming students of batch 09. The Accommodation Committee '09 is responsible for 

• Providing a temporary accommodation for 1-2 days to the upcoming Pakistani students coming to CHALMERS University.
• Providing guidance in terms of acquiring their permenant accomodation as soon as possible.
• Introducing the new students to the general rules and regulations within a city as well as rules and regulations put forth by the CHALMERS University which must have to be followed by the students. The aim is to mentally prepare the new students so that they can adjust easily in a new enviroment so that they should not voilate the rules & procedures that in turns potray a bad image of the country.

   The contact information of the members of the Committe are as follows

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