April 10, 2008	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 3, 1429

HYDERABAD, April 9: The University of Sindh started the Founder’s Week celebrations at its Jamshoro and Hyderabad campuses on Wednesday to pay homage to the great scholar and founder vice-chancellor of the university, Allama I.I. Kazi.

The celebrations commenced with plantation of saplings inside the mausoleum of late Kazi by the university’s first professor and eminent scholar Dr N.A. Baloch and SU Vice-Chancellor Dr Mazharul Haq Siddiqui.

University teachers, students, officers and employees offered fateha at the graves of the Allama and his wife Elsa Kazi.

The vice-chancellor and Dr. Baloch also inaugurated a book fair at the university’s central library organised by the management of Allama I.I. Kazi Library.

Dr N.A. Baloch said that Allama’s services for the education could never be forgotten and the establishment of Sindh University was one of his great achievements. Mr Siddiqui said that the Founder’s Week was aimed at highlighting the services of the great scholar. The Institute of Arts and Design has organised an art exhibition as part of the week’s celebrations, which will continue till April 13.

DATE EXTENDED: The University of Sindh extended the deadline for submission of examination forms for L.L.B. Part-I, II and III (fresh and failure) to April 17 without late fee, said a notification on Wednesday.