Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto University of Law, the country’s first law university, will open its doors to aspiring lawyers from July onwards this year.
The university is set to begin its first academic session with a full-fledged faculty of law, along with three other teaching departments for business administration, economics and criminology, said the vice-chancellor, Prof Dr Qazi Khalid Ali, at the launching ceremony at Pearl Continental Hotel on Wednesday. The ceremony was presided over by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan, with the chief justice of the Sindh High Court, Faisal Arab as chief guest.
“A competitive admissions process, based solely on merit, will begin from May 3, 2015 subsequent to which, classes for the first batch of students will commence from July 22 at the city campus in Clifton,” said the vice-chancellor. “The university will continue to function from the city campus until the completion of construction at its main campus, which is spread over 13.4 acres in Korangi, in 2018.”
The vice-chancellor, while justifying the establishment of the law varsity, said that in view of the recommendations of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the landmark case, titled ‘Pakistan Bar Council vs Federation of Pakistan and others (PLD 2007 SC 394)’, it had become necessary to develop a law university in Pakistan, which imparted legal education at par with the leading universities across the world.
