The National Law University (NLU) with campuses in all the four provinces will start functioning in March, an HEC official said. The official said the university would have linkages with other international institutions imparting legal education and carrying out research," he said.
Under Phase-I of the project, he said the classes would start simultaneously at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi campuses where the buildings have been acquired and high-tech facilities provided for students and the faculty as well.
In the next phase, the classes would be started at Peshawar and Quetta campuses, he added. The official said the university would help improve quality of legal profession, the bar and the bench as the faculty would be hired on Tenure Track System with excellent salary packages approved by the Ministry of Finance.