AMRITSAR: After announcing that the process of setting up
Baba Guru Nanak University at
Nankana Sahib has been put on the fast track by Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, vice
chancellor of Lahore-based Punjab University, has set up Baba
Guru Nanak Research chair in the university.
According to university’s
Facebook page, vice-chancellor Niaz Ahmad inaugurated the chair on Tuesday to do research on the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev.
This is for the first time that any Pakistani university has created a chair on the name of Guru Nanak Dev.
In recent past the Nankana Sahib administration had acquired over 50 acres for setting up a university dedicated to Guru Nanak.