J Aziz Fatm Med Den College                                                        JULY - DECEMBER 2020; VOL. 2, NO. 2                                                                                                   35 
  

From Editor’s Desk 

 

  Acknowledgement 

    Launching of new peer reviewed Medical journal was challenging tasks, with the publication of 2nd issue of 

volume 2 of Journal of Aziz Fatimah Medical and Dental College (JAFMDC); our journal has completed 2 years 

of production. During this tenure we have published 4 peer reviewed medical journals (2 volumes with 2 issues in 

each) with great success. It is an honor to get numerous letter of appreciation from all over the Pakistan. We achieved 

our first milestone by hardships and joint efforts of editorial team and now we are eligible to apply for its recognition 

by Higher Education Commission (HEC). 

 

 We initiated this journal with the goal to produce a high-quality, plagiarism free peer reviewed journal in field of 

medical sciences that adds information to the world’s medical literature from Pakistan. This success is impossible 

without the vision of Mr. Muhamad Idrees (Managing Trustee) who always encourages us to go beyond our comfort 

zone to achieve the set milestone. I would like to pay my especial gratitude to Mr. Ijaz Hussain (Executive director) 

to support in all the logistic required for this journal.  On achieving the first Milestone, as an editor, I wish to extend 

my thanks to JAFMDC’s Editorial board members especially to Dr. Farah Amir Ali, Dr. Benash Altaf and Dr. Mirza 

Aroosa Beg for helping me to achieve this task. On behalf of my team, I am grateful to our worthy Principal Noor-

Akbar Sial and senior manager administrator Mr. Aftab Ali khan, who have always been the pillar of unconditional 

support in all matters. 

 

   As JAFMDC achieved its first Milestone, we would like to acknowledge all authors who submitted their valuable 

research work to JAFMDC in spite of knowing that this is a new medical journal and still in phase of struggling for 

recognition with HEC. Of course, the contributions of reviewers towards JAFMDC are also appreciating that help 

us in provision of articles up to the mark of scientific excellence for readers.  

 

   We are also grateful to the legends of medical journalism Mr. Shaukat Ali Jawaid, Dr Fatema Jawad, Dr. Akhter 

Sherin, Dr. Jamshed Akhter, whose guidance during certificate in medical editing course (CME) at University of 

Health Sciences Lahore (UHS) helped us to overcome our shortcomings. Once again especial regards to Mr.Shaukat 

Ali Jawaid for his valuable suggestions to improve the quality of JAFMDC. We are thankful to Dr. Masood Jawaid 

for his guidance concerning Open Journal System (OJS) for transparent processing of articles. Now we are waiting 

for the advanced CME course to get more guidance concerning indexing of the journals. 

 

   We hope that our journal will continue to be an important conduit for scientific information with international 

standards. 

 

EDITOR JAFMDC 

Dr. Shireen Jawed 

Email: drshireenjawed@gmail.com