Lahore varsity gets Guru Nanak chair

AMRITSAR: After announcing that the process of setting up

Baba Guru Nanak University

at

Nankana Sahib

has been put on the fast track by Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, vice

chancellor

of Lahore-based Punjab University, has set up Baba

Guru Nanak

Research chair in the university.

According to university’s Facebook page, vice-chancellor Niaz Ahmad inaugurated the chair on Tuesday to do research on the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev. This is for the first time that any Pakistani university has created a chair on the name of Guru Nanak Dev.

In recent past the Nankana Sahib administration had acquired over 50 acres for setting up a university dedicated to Guru Nanak.