The National Law University (NLU), with campuses in all the four provinces, will start functioning in March, an Higher Education Commission (HEC) 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, classes would start simultaneously at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi campuses where buildings have been acquired and high-tech facilities provided for students and the faculty.
In the next phase, the classes would be started at Peshawar and Quetta campuses, he added. The official said that the university would help improve quality of legal profession, the bar and the bench as faculty would be hired on Tenure Track System with excellent salary packages approved by the Ministry of Finance.
HEC had sent 25 young law graduates to top international universities for higher studies last year who would be offered jobs in NLU on their return, he said. The official said that NLU would induct the first batch of students from all over the country through a rigorous testing process in February and March.