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Bahria 'Varsity Ordinance promulgated

ISLAMABAD: President Rafiq Tarar on Monday promulgated an Ordinance to provide for the establishment of Bahria University at Islamabad.

The Ordinance titled "Bahria University Ordinance 2000" shall come into force at once. The President of Pakistan shall be the Chancellor of the University.

The purpose of the University shall be the promotion and dissemination of knowledge and technology and to provide for instruction, training, research, demonstration and service in such branches of learning as the Board may deem fit.

The University shall be a fully autonomous body with freedom to govern its academic and administrative functions to achieve its objectives.

The University shall be open to all persons of either sex without prejudice of religion, race, class, creed, colour or domicile who qualify for admission for the courses of study offered by it based on the criteria and policy determined by the Board and no such person shall be denied the privileges of the University on the ground of sex, religion, race, class, creed, colour or domicile.

The University shall have the Bahria Institutes of Management and Computer Sciences at Islamabad and Karachi, the Pakistan Naval Academy, Manora, Karachi, the Pakistan Navy War College, Lahore, the Institute of Professional Psychology, Karachi, the Bahria Colleges at Islamabad and Karachi, the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences as its Constituents Units.

It also includes any other faculty or college instituted by the Board of any other unit established by, or on the authority of the Board.

The principal seat of the University shall be at Islamabad, and it may set up any number of colleges and institutes at such places in Pakistan and the Board may determine.

The University shall be a body corporate by the name of the Bahria University Islamabad having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power, among others, to acquire, hold and dispose of any property and shall by the said name sue and be sued. APP