Directorate of Advanced Studies & Research organized Shumaila’s Ph.D. Open Defense. She defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Construction Approach to Semantic Prosody of Near-Synonym Verbs: A Corpus-based Study” under Dr. Tahir Saleem’s supervision. The Defense Committee comprised Prof. Dr. Khalid Manzoor Butt, Convener, Dr. Bushra Sani, and Dr. Shafqat Hussain Zaidi, External Examiners, and Dr. Muhammad Aslam, Internal Examiner.
The defense featured a comprehensive question-and-answer session, highlighting the research’s significance, demonstrating academic rigour, and fostering meaningful academic discussion
