TOBE TEK SINGH: The National Taiwan University (NTU) Ranking of 2022 has declared the University of Agriculture Faisalabad as the 120th world best university in the agriculture field and the top rank in Pakistan.

UAF VC Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan said on Thursday that last year, the UAF was at 154th position worldwide and now it has improved its position. The NTU has issued the rankings in six fields and 27 subjects separately.

He said that in the subject specialists NTU Ranking 2022, the UAF was at 44th in the Agriculture Sciences subject, 113th in the Plant and Animal Sciences and 184 in the Environment Sciences and Engineering subject.

Director Office of Research Innovation and Commercialisation Dr Zahir Ahmad Zahir said the UAF always stands in every world ranking systems. He added that in QS ranking by subject, agriculture and for-estry, the University was at 74th worldwide and number one in Pakistan.

PROTEST: Scores of PTI activists staged protest demonstrations on Thursday outside the of fices of district election commissioners in Faisalabad, Jhang and Toba Tek Singh to condemn CEC`s decision against the PTI regarding foreign funding charges.

They chanted slogans demanding the resignation of the CEC and the release of verdicts of the funding cases of the PML-N and the PPP.

PTI parliamentarians and office bearers led the demonstrations.

MISSING: A woman is feared drowned on Thursday in the River Ravi.

Rescue 1122 said Abida Bibi, of Mauza Ahata Khai, was washing clothes on the river bank when she accidentally slipped into the river.

ELECTROCUTED: A man was electrocuted at Faisalabad on Thursday.

Rescue 1122 reported that Mubashar, of Shadab Colony, touched a live wire and died instantly.