PESHAWAR, April 3: University of Peshawar Vice-Chancellor Dr Haroon Rashid has said that academic excellence is the top priority of his administration and steps have been taken in the past few months to provide maximum facilities to students.

Talking to Uzbekistan Ambassador Oybek O. Usmanov, a German delegation led by Folker Flasse and chairman of the Humanity Care Trust, who called on him on Monday, the vice-chancellor said emphasis had been put on extra-curricular and sports activities on the campus.

Dr Rashid said there were six faculties and forty postgraduate departments with more than 20,000 students in the university.

He said the university wanted to orient the study of religions, arts, humanities and social sciences for the promotion of justice.

He said the university’s graduates were contributing in almost every field of life.—APP