KARACHI: Sindh Governor Muham­mad Zubair has announced that Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will lay the foundation stone of the federal government-funded University of Hyder­abad next month and the funding for the Karachi Development Package, com­­mitted by the PM, would start within the next 10 days.

The governor was speaking at a programme held at the Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) here on Friday to distribute 172 laptops among position-holders under the Prime Minis­ter’s Laptop Scheme.

The Karachi Package includes setting up of a medical college and a hospital at the University of Karachi.

Governor Zubair said that the federal government was utilising all available resources for the promotion of higher education as it fully realised that it is education through which common man could attain prosperity and the nation could achieve economic progress.

Responding to the problems highlighted by JSMU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Tariq Rafi in getting land for a research institution as well as construction of a wall separating the university campus and the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Complex, the governor held out the assurance that he would take up the issues with the authorities concerned. He hoped that he would be able to get all obstacles removed in the allotment of the required piece of land in the Education City project.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2017