Mohammad Tahir Shah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1956
Place of Birth: Sirikot, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Profession: geologist
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Mohammad Tahir Shah
- Mohammad Tahir Shah is a geoscientist.
- He is the founder Vice Chancellor of the FATA University, FR Kohat by the Federal Government on 18 January 2016.
- He became the director of the National Centre of Excellence in Geology in 2013 and served the Centre for more than 34 years.Shah has made contributions towards science and technology both nationally and internationally by convening/organizing 2 international and 4 national level conferences/workshops and have participated and delivered talks in large number of national and international conferences mainly in the United States, UK, Italy, Austria, China, Bangkok, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.He remained the principal and co-principal investigator of several national and international projects worth more than 10 million Rs.
- and also remained the project director of a national level project.Shah has carried out extensive geological research in understanding the genesis of the various types of rocks, mineral deposits (especially lead, zinc, copper and manganese) and gemstones in the northern parts of Pakistan.
- He supervised an international collaborative project of exploration for source rock for gold and precious metals in the Gilgit-Baltistan region.
- He has also established state of the art geochemistry laboratory in the National Centre of Excellence in Geology, whereby analysis of rocks, minerals, soil, plants and water are carried out through sophisticated instruments.
- The researchers throughout Pakistan acquired geochemical data from this laboratory for their national and international publications.
- For the last several years he has developed interest in the environmental problems of the country and has carried out research in the field of Environmental Geology.
- Shah has remained a teacher of the University of Peshawar.
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