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Welcome from
the
Vice Chancellor
 Professor
Garrett, the first historian of Government College Lahore, inscribed on
the title of his book on the history of Government College written in
1914, “Ask now of the days that are passed.” This essentially captures
the essence of the conventional thrust of the traditionalists who
inadvertently look back into the past and glorify it gratuitously. I
sincerely believe that while there is no harm in being retrospective
occasionally, it is extremely important to adopt a progressive outlook.
If modernity teaches us anything it is that we must always be ready to
challenge it to the utmost. Thus it is that I feel confident in stating
that most of us have by now rid ourselves of the regressive notion that
a university plays a marginal role in the nourishment of a nation. If
nothing else then the education sector alone must shoulder the
responsibility of propelling our nation safely out of this patch of
inertial socio-economic despondency.
In order to revive
the dwindling spirit of struggle and progress, our educational
institutions have to be remodeled such that they are well equipped to
perform the task of social reparation that our people greatly require.
While I am not one to preach the virtues of blind adherence to an unseen
future, I am nevertheless confident that we must not let the vision of
it escape us entirely. It must always be in our sight, just as palpable
as the present and just as undeniable as the past. Vigilant and
realistic thinkers may question the validity of this perspective and on
what grounds do I appear to promise so much. And then I shall be asked
what the ultimate goal of university education is, and of the liberal or
philosophical knowledge which I believe it must impart: I retort that
what I have already said has been sufficient to show that it has a very
tangible, real, and sufficient end, though the end cannot be divided
from that knowledge itself. Knowledge is capable of being its own end.
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge,
if it be really such, is its own reward. But we are just as much in the
business of nation building as we are in the business of imparting
knowledge, for in the nation that the Quaid envisioned, the two are not
distinct.
Prof. (Meritorious) Dr. M. Khaleeq-ur-Rahman, Izaz-i-Kamal
Vice
Chancellor
The Vice Chancellor’s Biography
 Prof.
(Meritorious) Dr. M. Khaleeq-ur-Rahman, Izaz-i-Kamal
is the 28th head of the Government College
(University) Lahore. He is an illustrious Physicist with 37 years of
teaching experience at the Department of Physics, University of
Engineering and Technology Lahore where he also served as chairperson
for a very long time.
The President of
Pakistan conferred upon him the prestigious Izaz-e-Kamal in the
education sector on account of his overall academic distinction for the
year 2009. The Higher Education of Pakistan selected him for the Best
Teacher Award for the year 2008 in recognition of his invaluable
services in the realm of research and pedagogy. Pakistan Institute of
Physics bestowed upon him the Fellowship Gold Medal for his marvelous
contribution to the advancement of Physics in Pakistan. The Pakistan
Academy of Sciences
(PAS),
Islamabad did award the Gold Medal 2011 to him for outstanding research
in the field of Physics.
Having received
his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, UK, Prof.
(Meritorious) Dr. M. Khaleeq-ur-Rahman, Izaz-i-Kamal has contributed over 90 research articles to the
journals of international repute and delivered 06 invited lectures at
national and international conferences. He has supervised the research
dissertations of 105 scholars at M. Sc., M. Phil. and Ph. D. levels. His
research interest spans over Laser Surface Patterning of different
materials, Characterization of Deposited Thin Films for
Sensors/Detectors Development, Investigation of Hard X-Rays from Laser
Induced Plasmas, High Power Laser Matter Interaction and Deposition of
Solid Thin Films by Pulsed Nd. YAG Laser.
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