Sudan Embassy's First Secretary, Mohamed Eldei Ali called on Punjab University acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dr Jamil Anwar Chaudhry at Quaid-e-Azam Campus and discussed avenues of academic collaboration between PU and Khartoum University. He said Sudanese students always give the embassy very positive remarks about PU and they had never complaint about this great university of Pakistan.
He invited a PU delegation to visit Khartoum University. Professor Jamil Anwar said that there were strong religious and cultural ties between the people of both countries. He said PU had 13 faculties, 65 departments with 30,000 on-campus students. He hoped that soon a memorandum of understanding (MoU) would be signed between both varsities for linkage in the subjects of mutual interest.
Dr Anwar said that Sudan was the blend of the Arabian and African cultures. Earlier PU Public Relations Officer, Shabbir Sarwar, while giving a briefing said that PU alumni were working on key posts and the sitting Prime Minister, most of the politicians, bureaucrats were PU students. He said PU also had the distinction of producing three noble laureates.