Punjab University on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Lahore Council for World Affairs (LCWA) to collaborate in research and objective discussions on national issues. The MoU signing ceremony was held in the committee room of VC office.
PU VC Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran, Director External Linkages Maria I Maldonado, Chairperson Department of Political Science Professor Dr Umbreen Javed, deans of various faculties, LCWA CEO and President former ambassador Javid Husain, former ambassadors including Shaukat Omar, Khalid Mahmood, Tauheed Ahmed and legal advisor Rass Masood were present on the occasion.
While briefing the meeting on LCWA, Javid Husain said that under the patronage of former foreign secretary Shamshad Ahmed, a group of former ambassadors and other interested Pakistanis had agreed to establish the council as an independent, non-political, non-partisan and non-profit organisation dedicated to better comprehension of foreign policy issues facing Pakistan and the world at large on the part of opinion makers and the public in the country.
He said its focus in particular would be on the strategic, security and economic challenges confronting the country. He said the council would seek to achieve those goals by undertaking a wide variety of scholarly activities to produce and disseminate ideas and opinions on different aspects of Pakistan's external relations keeping in view the global and regional strategic, political and economic environment and would also involve eminent national and international personalities and opinion makers from officia1 and private sectors.