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The Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto University of Law (SZABUL) is to hold the first-ever international conference on legal education on December 4, 5, and 6 in Karachi.

This was announced by the varsity’s vice-chancellor, Justice (Retd) Prof Dr Qazi Khalid Ali, at a press conference at a hotel on Thursday afternoon. The conference is to be inaugurated on December 4 by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali at 3:00pm at the Pearl Continental Hotel.

“Through this conference, we intend to convey the message of peace and harmony to the world community. The forum will also provide a platform to local and foreign intellectuals, practitioners of law, teachers and students to come forward in a conducive environment for research in the field of law,” said Justice (Retd) Ali.

He said that apart from guests from within the country, there would be participants from both the judiciary and the universities’ law faculties from other countries, notably from the United Kingdom, United States, Tajikistan and India.

As many as four international speakers and five national speakers would be making keynote addresses. Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad and the Chief Justice Sindh High Court Justice Faisal Arab would also be speaking at the inaugural session.

Justice Maqbool Baqar, Honorable Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan, will be speaking on the topic, “Teaching and Learning” on the opening day of the moot.

Briefing the media on the other aspects of the SZABUL, Justice (Retd) Ali said that the university was the first-ever law university in Pakistan and was established by the Government of Sindh through the enactment of the SZABUL Act, 2012 (Sindh Act XIII of 2013) and was

recognised by Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC), Sindh Higher Education Commission, and the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC).

It was currently providing instruction to 220 students in the field of LLB, LLM, and PhD in Law.

The university, he said, was spread out over 30,000 square feet and all the academic staff were highly qualified as they included retired judges of the Supreme Court and high courts.

The media was informed that the Government of Sindh had approved a PC-1 to the amount of Rs1,145.178 million in terms of aid to the university. A 4,000 square yards area on Chaudhry Khaliq-uz-Zaman Road in Clifton had been allocated to the university’s city campus while an area of 13.44 acres in Korangi had been allocated by the Sindh government and the Karachi Development Authority for the university’s main campus.

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