President sanctions AIOU Khudabad, Mithi campuses

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Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) would set up Khudabad and Mithi campuses in Sindh. Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy, Pir Mazhar ul Haq and AIOU officials on the directives of President Asif Ali Zardari met to sanction the project. The project would facilitate spread of education into peripherial areas of Sindh. The minister told that an AIOU campus would also be set up at Shikarpur. The minister said that during Musharraf rule, higher education had been ignored in Sindh and if Shaheed Mohtarma BB had not laid the foundation of optic fibre in Pakistan, there would have had been no IT revolution in the country yet. Pir Mazhar announced 100 Sindh Government’s endowment fund scholarships for AIOU. He said that Chinese Language Centres were being set up to literate youngster in the language of the most populated nation of the world. AIOU VC Prof. Nazeer Sangi was also present on the occasion.

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