July 11, 2007	Wednesday	Jamadi-us-Sani 25, 1428

BAHAWALPUR, July 10: Two new faculties of management sciences and life sciences will be set up in the Islamia University for which the Punjab government has approved a sum of Rs500 million.

Presiding over a meeting of deans, chairmen and principals of constituent colleges and directors of sub-campuses, vice-chancellor Prof Dr Bilal A Khan said here on Tuesday the management sciences would comprise departments of management sciences, computer science and commerce while the life sciences would comprise the departments of botany and zoology. Besides, a college of arts, design and performing arts will be established.

He stated that an electronic media laboratory has been approved for the department of media studies.

The VC told the meeting that the central development working party at its meeting held recently in Islamabad approved Rs1,246.903 million to complete three mega projects. These included University College of Agriculture (Rs421.566 million), Bahawalnagar sub-campus (Rs408.64 million) and Rahim Yar Khan sub-campus (Rs416.694 million).

The VC directed to fill all vacant posts of lecturers and assistant professors before the next academic session.

Earlier, the advance studies and research board at its meeting approved the award of PhD degrees to Umar Hayat and Shafiqur Rehman in Islamic Studies and Arabic respectively.

MURDER MYSTERY: Baghdadul Jadid police claimed to have solved the mystery of murder of Bandal Khan, who was allegedly kidnapped about a fortnight ago.

City ASP Zulfiqar Ali Mahar told newsmen here on Tuesday that police on a tip of interrogated three suspects Suraj Masih, son of councillor Javed Masih, Shaukat Ali and Akbar, who admitted Bandal Khan’s murder to seize his plot in Islami Colony.

Later in the evening, the police party on the information provided by the accused, recovered the body from the courtyard of a house and sent it to the Bahawal Victoria Hospital for postmortem examination.