PU reference for former teacher

LAHORE

Punjab University (PU) on Thursday organised a condolence reference to pay rich tributes to internationally acclaimed physicist, former PU Faculty of Science Dean and founder of Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP) Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem. 

 PU Vice-Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran, former PU VC Sheikh Imtiaz Ali, Dr Khawaja Muhammad Zakria, Prof Maqsood Anwar Butt, Dr Jamil Anwar, Dr Muhammad Ali, Iftikhar Ahmad Chaudhary, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami, Ihsan Ullah Waqas, faculty members and a large number of students were present.  Dr Mujahid Kamran said Dr Saleem was his teacher who had urged him to join teaching profession.  He said Dr Muhammad Saleem was the best teacher who used to teach difficult topics in a way that students could understand easily. 

Sheikh Imtiaz Ali said when he was the PU vice-chancellor, Dr Muhammad Saleem was a lecturer and there was a vacancy of associate professor to be filled.

He said he referred his research work for evaluation to two top physicists of the world and one was a Nobel laureate and the other was from Royal Society in the United Kingdom. He said the American physicist had mentioned in his letter that the research work of Dr Saleem was of the level that he could teach in any American university as a professor while the other expert also praised Dr Saleem’s work.  Dr Muhammad Ali said Dr Saleem would not take money for teaching MPhil students in Space Sciences after his retirement. Mujeeb ur Rehman Shami said Dr Saleem surprised everybody by writing books on Dara Shikoh, Qauid-e-Azam, Allama Iqbal and Maulana Shibli.