ISLAMABAD – Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis& Human Resource Development Sayed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari on Saturdayvisited Pir Sohawa to review arrangements for the foundation layingceremony of Al-Qadir University for Sufism.

Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to lay the foundation stone of theuniversity on Sunday.

Speaking at the site of university, the PM’s special assistant said theAl-Qadir University would give both Islamic and scientific education to thestudents and help them become morally, intellectually and spirituallyaccomplished persons.

He said the concept of setting up the Al-Qadir University was to realizethe prime minister’s dream of providing equal opportunities of education tothe youth.

Prime Minister Imran Khan had a vision to transform Pakistan into a welfarestate on the pattern of State of Madina and establishing such institutionsto impart Islamic teachings to the youth showed his commitment in thatregard.

Bukhari said besides contemporary studies of religions with emphasis onSufism in order to revive the Islamic research culture among the youth, theuniversity would also have focus on science and technology.

He said no university existed between Gujrat and Rawalpindi and therefore,Sohawa had been selected to establish Al-Qadir University to cater to theeducational needs of area youth.