A 4-days (December 11-14, 2017) training workshop on "the pathways to leadership" organized by Faculty of Social Sciences in collaboration with Renaissance Foundation for Social Innovation, Islamabad held at Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR).

The purpose of the workshop was to explore the very emotions affecting the social & religious harmony and nurture the abilities to understand others and develop tolerance to cope with leadership crises.

Prof Dr. Sarwat N. Mirza Vice Chancellor PMAS-AAUR was the chief guest at the concluding session while Pakistan's renowned scholar Dr. Khalid Zaheer, famous TV anchor & columnist Khurshid Nadeem, Founding Member School of Leadership Mr. Kamran Rizvi, PMAS-AAUR Dean Faculty of Social Sciences Dr. Abdul Saboor, were the guest speakers at the training workshop which was attended by deans, directors and students of social sciences.

Speakers while addressing enlightened the budding leaders on the basis of Quran and Hadith. They guided that the truth should not be compromised in the name of personal biases. We should take arguments of every group. Speakers argued that Islam has its unique thinking system which produces positive leaders. It makes each culture natural as the beauty of Islam lies in its compatibility with other cultures of the world. The last session was a very interactive based on the principles of leadership in context of ownership, connection, sympathy and visionary approaches. Regardless of differences, they focused on the diversified approaches and emphasized to adopt the principles of Commonalities. They also talked on the soft elements of leadership and concluded that principle center leadership is the need of the day rather than person centered leadership. Prof Dr. Sarwat N. Mirza, Vice Chancellor of the University, while sharing his own experiences in life he argued that interactive teaching is important for creating success stories in academic life. He argued that there is much potential among our youth which should be capitalized in the right direction. Vice Chancellor appreciated the efforts of Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, Dr. Abdul Saboor along with Ayyub Ayubi, Executive Director and Sidra, communication secretary, of Renaissance Foundation for organizing such a successful training session. He hoped that the training session will be helpful to respect the feelings of others by accepting the differences to create the social & religious harmony. He also promised to continue this kind of trainings in other faculties of the university. At the end Certificates and shields were also distributed among the participants.