HYDERABAD, March 4: Eminent German scholar and professor of the Humboldt University, Berlin, Dr Bettina Robotka, visited the Sindh University in Jamshoro on Thursday.

The expert on modern history of South Asia, Dr Robotka, called on SU Vice-Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui and discussed with him the possibility of collaboration between two universities in research on history.

Mr Siddiqui told her that a meeting of the Institute of Sindhology and department of History would soon be called in which the collaboration plan would be discussed.

Dr Robotka also saw the published and unpublished material on the life and works of Elsa Qazi, the German wife of the founder vice chancellor of the Sindh University, Allama I.I. Kazi.

The scholar also visited the Allama I.I. Kazi library and the Allama I.I. Kazi corner. Dr Robotka said that the works of Dr Annemarie Schimmel and Mrs Kazi had established academic linkages between Germany and Pakistan.

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