LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Imran on Saturday inaugurated Sheikh Abul Hassan Shazli Research Centre for promotion of Sufism and science and technology.

In the first phase, a centre will be established in Lahore where research work on Islam, Sufism, religious thoughts, tolerance, science and technology as well as modern knowledge will be conducted.

The centre will be open for poor and deserving students, the destitute and education-friendly people.

The research centre will be linked to Darul Aman, Child Protection and Welfare Bureau, prisons across the province especially for juvenile and women rehabilitation centres, schools, colleges, universities besides public and private religious educational institutions.

The centre will also be connected to the e-libraries of world-renowned modern research institutes including JSTOR and leading educational institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge and Howard.

The people of the province will be given remote access so that they could benefit from their homes.

An online guidance centre portal will also be set up in the research centre in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission to provide information to students for getting admission and scholarships in local and foreign universities.

For this purpose, MoUs are being signed with Government College University, Lahore College for Women University, Jamia Naeemia, Auqaf Research Centre, in the first phase, for linking them to the modern research work.

Meanwhile, Sheikh Abul Hassan Shazli centre will also be set up at GCU.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2021