GCU appoints two deans

LAHORE

The Punjab government Wednesday appointed Prof Dr Tahir Kamran Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and physicist Prof Dr Riaz Ahmad Dean, Faculty of Engineering at Government College University for a period of three years on the recommendations of Vice Chancellor Prof Hassan Amir Shah against the posts that were lying vacant since their inception in 2002 and 2009 respectively. 

The Punjab government has already appointed Prof Dr Muhammad Iqbal Shahid as Dean, Faculty of Languages, Islamic & Oriental Learning and Prof Dr Islam Ullah Khan as Dean, Faculty Science of Technology at GCU.

Prof Dr Tahir Kamran served on the prestigious post of Iqbal Fellow at the University of Cambridge UK. He authored several international publications specifically on the history of the Punjab, sectarianism, democracy, and governance. Prof Dr Riaz Ahmad is currently serving as Chairman, GCU Physics Department and has around 80 international research papers to his credit. He is a PhD from the Imperial College, UK.