Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has said that the West should learn from Pakistan how to fight terrorism as it has defeated terrorists with the valour and unprecedented sacrifices of Pakistan Army, law enforcement agencies and Pakistani nation. He was addressing the 129th Convocation of Punjab University here on Saturday.
PU has awarded Honourary PhD degree in the subject of Law to the European Union Parliament's Vice President Fabio Massimo Castaldo, during the convocation. PU Vice Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmad, Pro VC Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Mazhar, Registrar Dr Muhammad Khalid Khan, Controller of Examinations Rauf Nawaz, Additional Controller of Examinations Raja Shahid Javed, deans, faculty members and a large number of outshining graduates and their parents participated in the event.
Addressing the ceremony, Governor Sarwar said that no nation had made more sacrifices than Pakistani nation in war on terror. He said that all the super powers of the world had failed in Afghanistan but Pakistan had overpowered terrorism in country. He said that Modi's Indian Citizenship Act had turned the whole India into Kashmir in which minorities were being deprived of their rights. He said that no human rights believer could accept Indian Citizenship Act. He said that India had imposed curfew in Occupied Kashmir for the last 140 days and changed its status in violation of resolutions of the United Nations. He said that India was also denying access to international observers to the occupied valley.
He said that on the contrary, Pakistan had provided all the rights to minorities as per the vision of Quaid-e-Azam. He said that we were thankful to Massimo for supporting Kashmiri people and condemning Indian Citizenship Act. He said that the government had removed culture of ad-hoc appointments from universities and 20 vice chancellors had been appointed on merit for making institutions of higher learning fully functional. He said that the incumbent government never allowed political interference in the universities. He said that he was happy that three disciplines of PU had been ranked among 250 to 300 top academic institutions of the world and PU's QS, Times Higher Education and Nature group rankings had improved manifold and PU VC Prof Niaz Ahmad deserved due appreciation in this regard.
He said that it was also a historic achievement that PU had produced 243 PhDs in one year. He said that the Punjab government was trying to bring universities in Punjab among top 500 institutions of the world and the government would extend maximum support in this regard. He encouraged entrepreneurship culture at universities so that young students could resolve economic issues being faced by the society. He said that Pakistani students were not less than European students in talent.
He said that Prime Minister and his team understood that young people were our prime assets. He congratulated the graduating students, their parents and teachers and urged them to come forward for development of the country.
He said that we should stand with the people of Kashmir and Palestine who were facing atrocities. He said that the future of the world was associated with education. He said that education could prevent wars and produce tolerant people. He also paid tribute to Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and cited their sayings.
Addressing the ceremony, PU VC Prof Niaz Ahmad said that PU administration had implemented policy of merit, transparency and accountability in all the operations of the university. He said that the administration had activated all statutory bodies and their meetings were being held regularly to run PU affairs in a transparent manner. He said that producing 243 PhDs in one year was a silent revolution. He said that the university had promoted and appointed a large number of teachers and employees purely on merit, addressing their grievances who were awaiting their rights since many years. He said that the university administration was bringing academic revolution by taking several initiatives due to which PU's international ranking had improved manifold. He said that PU was also establishing relations with foreign universities for collaboration in research and exchange of teachers and students.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2019
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