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Chairman Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed along with Vice Chancellor of Sindh Madressatul Islam University Dr. Mujeeb Sahrai and Sindh HEC Chairman Dr. Tariq Rafi inaugurated Allama I.I. Kazi Library at IT Tower of Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU) on Wednesday.
Thereafter, he addressed the inaugural ceremony, which was held at the Allama I.I. Kazi Library where he said that quality of higher education in Pakistan has improved, but still there is a long way to go and invest more quality into it. Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed said we couldn’t compete with those universities of the world that are established hundreds of years ago, while our most universities are established within the period of 75 years. The HEC Chairman maintained that the universities of other countries that are ranked as top world universities enjoy highest budget. “Budget of a high ranked university of developed country is almost equal to the budget of our all universities of the country,” Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed said and added that despite that fact our universities are producing highly successful students that are competing on the world level. A large number of our students have been succeeded in getting scholarships of European countries.
HEC Chairman praised the role of provincial government of Sindh for allocating 15 billion rupees for higher education in Sindh and said other provinces should also allocate some amount for higher education in their respective institutions.
He further said after Covid-19 the torrential rains and floods our nation is suffering a lot. Therefore, we are trying to cut our expenditures and support affected people. He said HEC has decided that fees of two semesters and hostel expenditure will not be charged from the students of affected families. “This process has been delayed a little bit as students belonging to non-affected families have also applied for support, that is why some time has wasted in scrutiny of students,” The HEC chairman said and urges the students of whose families who are not affected that they should not apply for support and didn’t usurp right of real affected students.
Praising the role of SMIU, HEC Chairman said SMIU has emerged as one of the quality universities of the country. Also, it inherits many distinctions as it has been Alma-Mater of Founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who had bequeathed one third of his residual property to SMIU. He also praised the role of SMIU’s Vice Chancellor Dr. Mujeeb Sahrai and said he is striving for the development and quality education of SMIU. He announced every possible support to SMIU.
Vice Chancellor Dr. Mujeeb Sahrai in his address thanked the Chairman HEC Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, Chairman Sindh HEC Dr. Tariq Rafi and other guests for gracing the event. Talking about SMIU Dr. Sahrai said students’ population is increasing during every admission process at SMIU, because besides quality education SMIU offers those courses which are being offered by best private universities. He said, apart from adding a new academic block of IT Tower, now SMIU has added third library named Allama I.I. Kazi Library to it. “Allama I.I. Kazi was alumnus of SMI, founder Vice Chancellor of University of Sindh and a great scholar of the country,” Dr. Mujeeb Sahrai said and added, that is why SMIU has paid a great tribute to him in the form of this modern library.
On the occasion Vice Chancellor SMIU Dr. Mujeeb Sahrai gave away shields to the chairman HEC and other guests. Advisor to Vice Chancellor SMIU Dr. Abdul Hafeez Khan, Deans Dr. Aftab Ahmed Shaikh, Dr. Zahid Ali Channar, Dr. Jamshed Adil Halepota, Registrar Mr. Ghulam Mustafa Shaikh, Liberian Mr. Shahnawaz Mahessar and Additional Liberian Ms. Mahjabeen Ali also presented souvenirs to the guests.
Dr. Tariq Rafi, Chairman Sindh HEC, Regional Director HEC Karachi Javed Ali Memon, Prof Dr Ghulam Raza Bhatti, Vice Chancellor of Shaikh Ayaz University, Shikarpur, deans, chairpersons, sectional heads and other officials attended the program.