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IIU to set up more campuses: Meraj

ISLAMABAD: The International Islamic University (IIU) will set up more campuses in various parts of the country and other Islamic countries.

Rector of the IIU Malik Meraj Khalid said the University has six faculties including Law, Ossol-e-Din, Economics, Management Sciences and languages.

Some new faculties and departments will also be opened including Information Technology besides an important faculty of Social Sciences, Persian and French languages.

Meraj Khalid said the IIU is a unique learning and training institution of the whole Muslim Ummah and a programme has been chalked out to open new campuses in various parts of the country.

Giving the historical background of the University, Malik Meraj Khalid said that the University was set up to take bold initiatives for the promotion of learning culture among the Muslim countries to specifically shun sectarianism.

"It is a fully autonomous body with academic as well as administrative freedom and governed by a Board of Governors and a Board of Trustees", he mentioned.

President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan is the Chancellor of the University according to the constitutional provision, he said.

The University is catering for the academic needs of more than 60 nationalities including states where Muslims are minority communities such as Muslims from China Thailand, eastern Europe, Central Asia, Spain, South Africa etc. The university faculty members consists of learned scholars from almost 10 countries including Pakistan, he said.

One of the main feature of this university is its bilinguality with Arabic and English as its medium of instructions, he said.

Giving the details about the faculties, he said that Arabic is the main language for teaching Islamic and Arabic subjects whereas modern disciplines are taught through English language in the Faculties of Management Sciences, Law and Economics.

The university is awarding B.A (Hone), B.Sc (Hons), M.A., M.Sc, and PhD degree in various specialisations. All degrees of this university are recognised nationally and internationally, he added.

A total 2,923 male and female students have graduated from this university in the fields of Law, Economics, Computer Science, Information Technology and Business Administration, he said.

Shari'ah Academy, organises training to judges, law and police officers besides publication and research programmes in Islamic law, he said.

Da'Wah Academy, is engaged in training of Imams in addition to research and publication programmes for projection of Islam from authentic sources throughout the world, he further added.

The Government of Pakistan, responding to the need of the university, has donated a spacious piece of land covering 704 acres in the heart of the city with an estimated market price of $300 million for the construction of a proper campus of the International Islamic University.

The university has laid down an academic plan for a period of 25 years to be implemented in five phases of five-year duration each. A master plan for the construction of the new campus has been prepared in the light of this academic plan, he said.ÑAPP