Pakistan Wins Three Bronze Medals at International Physics Olympiad 2024

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan team won three Bronze medals at the 54th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) held in Isfahan, Iran on July 21-28.

Pakistani students Talha Ashraf (Nixor College, Karachi), Huzaifa Altamash (Lahore Grammar School, Senior Boys Campus, Johar Town, Lahore) and Muhammad Salman Tarar (The Science School, H-9/1, Islamabad) won Bronze Medals while Muhammad Saad Bilal (Siddeeq Public School & College, Rawalpindi) received an Honorable Mention for Pakistan.

The Pakistan team participated in the Physics Olympiad under the sponsorship of STEM Careers Programme, which is a joint venture of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Science (PIEAS).

The Physics team was trained at PIEAS, Islamabad by Dr. Muhammad Irfan and Prof. Dr. Aman-ur-Rehman and was led in the competition by Prof. Dr. Najeeb-ur-Rehman (COMSATS, Islamabad) and Dr. Rahmat Ullah (COMSATS, Islamabad).

This is the first time that all the four team members trained at PIEAS got medals and certificates.

PIEAS, working under the auspices of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), conducts a National Science Talent Contest (NSTC) in four subjects Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics each year. NSTC is an extension of the National Physics Talent Contest (NPTC), which was initiated by PIEAS in 1995 and it has been a regular annual event since 2003.