July 11, 2008	Friday	Rajab 7, 1429

KARACHI, July 10: Visiting Bangladeshi delegation of scholars and researchers has said education can be a major factor in cementing relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Prof Shahnaz Nasim, a professor at the Rajshahi University, leads the delegation academicians and researchers that visited the International Relations department of the University of Karachi on Thursday.

The delegation met Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui and deans of the faculties of Arts and Management Sciences.

Prof Siddiqui observed that education was the only constructive and peaceful means for national resurrection.

“Knowledge is the life of an individual and nation,” he remarked, and said his institution would extend all possible cooperation to the governments of the two countries in attaining mutual educational development.

Prof Abuzar Wajidi, Dean Faculty of Management Sciences, said there should be an increase in the exchange of visits by scholars and students between the two countries.

Prof Shamsuddin, Dean Faculty of Arts, said that Pakistan and Bangladesh enjoyed brotherly relations and could not remain apart in this era of globalization. Mutual cooperation, he added, was essential in giving a boost to bilateral ties, particularly in the field of education.

Prof Mutahir Ahmed, Chairman of the IR department, said that educational development was the real form of development, adding that his department was playing a significant role in developing research and debate culture at the University of Karachi.

Mr Mamun, a faculty member in the Dhaka University’s department of Political Science, said that the post-1971 generation in his country had overcome the debacle trauma.—APP