ISLAMABAD: Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Dr Muhammad Ali has underlined the need of having an active and productive role of the higher educational institutions in the country’s overall socio-economic development. The acting AIOU Vice Chancellor Dr Nasir Mahmood presided over the conference that was arranged by the Department of Physics. He hoped that under the dynamic leadership of Vice Chancellor Dr Zia-Ul-Qayyum, the AIOU will emerge as the best one among the open universities of the World. He emphasised that academicians should work with the industrial sector for giving their academic input that help to address the socio-economic problems of the country. While welcoming distinguished guests Dr Nasir Mahmood hoped that the conference would be a source of interaction and future collaboration among the academicians and the researchers.

Source: Pakistan Today February 23, 2019 14:03 UTC