SUKKUR: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah inaugurated Begum Nusrat Bhutto Women University (BNBWU) here on Friday.

The Higher Education Committee (HEC) has accorded permission/issued a no-objection certificate for admissions in the university and initially at least 600 admissions have been opened in six departments, including natural sciences, management science and management, information and communication, and human resources.

BNBWU Vice Chancellor Dr Samreen Hussain gave a briefing to the Sindh CM.

The CM said it was the first public sector university which was named after the “mother of democracy”, Begum Nusrat Bhutto. It was the outcome of hard work of MNA Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, he added.

He said that after completion of the scheme, girl students of Sindh, including those of Sukkur, needed not go to far-off places for getting education as the facilities of higher and standard education would be available to them at their doorsteps. The CM said he wanted to see that university among the best universities of the country.

PPP meeting

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh chapter president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and CM Murad Ali Shah presided over a meeting of the PPP Sukkur Division here on Friday.

Mr Shah said he has appeared before the workers of PPP Sukkur on the directives of party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.

He said the PPP secured votes and grabbed maximum seats in the General Elections-2018, but they had been defeated on some seats forcibly by conspiracy. He said the PPP had always rendered services to the people though many problems were created by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government during the past two years.

The PPP had constructed roads throughout Sindh, including in Sukkur, and built National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) centres in the big cities of Sindh.

Published in Dawn, October 24th, 2020