Pak appoints Baba Guru Nanak University's first vice chancellor

AMRITSAR: Pakistan government has announced the appointment of the first vice chancellor of

Baba Guru Nanak University

(BGNU) even as university building is yet to come up in the neighbouring country .

Evacuee Trust Property Board chairman Aamer Ahmed informed TOI on Friday that vice chancellor, Government College University,

Lahore

Professor Asghar Zaidi had been given charge as first vice chancellor of the Baba Guru Nanak University.

The then prime minister of Pakistan Shaukat Aziz had announced to set up a university dedicated to Sikh’s first master

Guru Nanak Dev

at his birth place

Nankana Sahib

in 2006 but ever since the construction of BGNU had run into rough weathers.

Earlier local residents of Nankana Sahib along with a group of lawyers denied to give their land for the university following which it was decided to shift the BGNU to

Islamabad

with a campus to be set up at Muridke which is the headquarters of notorious Islamist militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba.