The 5^th cycle of IAP Kausar Bashir Ahmad Award was carried out in April 2017. Eighteen accredited schools of architecture throughout Pakistan were invited to nominate the best thesis projects under the domain of Socially Responsive Architecture. Maximum two entries were requested from each school and in return 23 entries were received from 13 schools

Sixteen entries of the eighteen received were anonymously presented to the Jury. The jurors shortlisted four projects which seemed close to the philosophy of the Award for further review and deliberations and unanimously declared the thesis titled, ’Socio-Economic Upliftment of Lyari Community through Reorganization of Spaces’ by Ms. Sana Hameed of NED University as winning entry.