Courses

During the 1993-1998, IMC offered short-term certificate courses (8 to 14 weeks duration) in Islamabad in these areas:

• Certificate in Journalism
• Certificate in Advertising
• Certificate in Public Relations
• Certificate in Cartooning
• Certificate in TV Journalism

The students and faculty published a six-monthly journal called The Communicator, which carried student writings.

Notable IMC faculty

A high-powered faculty was arranged to teach these courses. They included big-names like:

• Syed Talat Hussain (The News then, formerly Geo TV)
• Ziauddin Ahmad (Editor Dawn, Express Tribune, then)
• Anjum Niaz (Late, Dawn)
• Shujaat Ali (The News cartoonist then; formerly with Al-Jazeera TV)
• Gulrez Mojiz (Interflow, film maker)
• Muhammad Malick (Interflow & Dawn then, formerly MD PTV, TV anchor)
• Tasneem Ahmer (then university faculty at QAU)
• Absar Alam (The Nation then, former Pemra Chairman)
• Navid Zafar (Late, Director Current Affairs PTV then)
• Salman Wasay (then Paktel, later Ufone, now Chaaye Khana)
• Ali Kamal Khan (Late, professor, advertising professional)
• Mahmood Hashmi (owner, Orient McCann Erickson)
• Allauddin Masood (DG Public Relations Pakistan Senate then)
• Prof Zakariyya Sajid (President Press Institute of Pakistan then, formerly Chairman, Mass Communication Department at Karachi University)
• Wali Zahid (Executive Director IMC then; President IMC now)

Notable IMC alumni

Many of the alumni are now in senior positions in various media outlets. Some of them are:

• Saman Ansari (then PTV hostess and FM RJ; now appears in TV plays)
• Naveed Ahmad (Jefferson Fellow, The News/Geo, now international correspondent)
• Ahmed Mukhtar (Bureau Chief, Abb Takk News)
• Dr Leila Mona Ganiem, Indonesian scholar & professor
• Fariha Tahir Shah (formerly with Nokia, NCR, Microsoft, CAA)
• Javed Malik (Brandeis alum, formerly with DfID, now Director Malala Fund)
• Ahmad Bilal Khan (advertising guru)
• Rao Javaid (formerly with Oxfam)
• Kiran Arif Khan