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Pakistan-Austrian University campus being set up in DHA
LAHORE, Dec 10, 2007: A campus of Pakistan-Austrian University of Technology (PAUT) is being
established on 130 acres in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) under the
Universities of Engineering Science and Technology of Pakistan (UESTP)
project.
According to a statement, Governor Lt Gen (r) Khalid Maqbool
said this while talking to a six-member delegation of educational experts from
Austria, led by Federal Science and Research minister Dr Johannos Hahn, at the
Governor's House on Sunday.
Honorary Consul of Austria in Pakistan Sarmad
Amin, Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman Dr Ataur Rehman, HEC advisor Dr
Haroon Ahmad, executive director Dr Sohail Hussain Naqvi, Federal Commission
coordinator Javed Masood and Dr Khalid Mehmood, the project director of UESTP –
being set up with the collaboration of international reputed universities of
Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Sweden and China – were also present on this
occasion.
Welcoming the Austrian delegation, Maqbool said Lahore was an
important cultural and educational centre of the country and was also known as
the centre of engineering economy.
He said campuses of Pakistan Germany
University of Technology on 480 acres and Pakistan China University of
Technology on 320 acres would also be established in Muridke, near Lahore, on
under-construction expressway between Lahore and Sialkot. He said the three
universities would have their own technology parks.
The governor said
due to establishment of the technical universities, various industries would be
benefited from the expertise of international-level technical experts.
"Pakistani industrialists will be able to introduce their new products through
these technology parks," he said.
Maqbool said the talented Pakistani
youth would graduate from those reputed universities in Pakistan. "The
entrepreneurship culture will also be promoted in the country," he said. Daily Times
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