LAHORE: (Friday, October 03, 2025): Punjab University Institute of Administrative Sciences (IAS) organized a seminar on “Public Policy, Policy Analysis & the Policy Cycle”. On this occasion, Director IAS Prof Dr Kashif Rathore, PAS officer Javed Akhtar Mahmood, Dr Sidra Irfan, Dr Tayyab Ali Khan, faculty members, alumni and students were present. In his address, Prof Dr Kashif Rathore while welcoming the distinguished guest speaker, expressed gratitude for his valuable contribution to the ongoing policy debate at IAS. He pointed out that the practical issues and problems in public policy raised by the secretary should be taken up as areas of formal research by MPA/MPhil and PhD students. In his address, Javed Akhtar Mahmood shed light on the topic. He also urged the students to work hard for the country. Dr Sidra Irfan said that such insightful seminars by top bureaucratic leadership can serve as the most useful industry-academia linkage in the field of public administration. She thanked the guest speaker, and appreciation for Dr Sajid Nazir for planning & arranging the seminar.