GCU Endowment Fund Trust hold Fund Raising Iftar Dinner

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The GCU Endowment Fund Trust arranged a fund raising Iftar Dinner at the university campus with the aim to generate funds to help GCU’s deserving students and development projects. 

Kamran Lashari, the President of Old Ravians Union stressed the participants to contribute to their alma mater with the true Ravian spirit while President, Endowment Fund Trust Javed Tariq Khan also urged the need that philanthropists besides Old Ravians should also contribute to the Endowment Fund so that the deserving students of the institution could be helped. Khalid Manzoor Butt, honorary secretary of Old Ravians Union of GCU said on the occasion that the profit of the funds would be utilized for deserving students and GCU development projects. He thanked Javed Tariq Khan, Kamran Lashari and Mian Misbah-ur-Rehman for their participation and cooperation in this regard.

Souvenirs were distributed among the donors who contributed in Iftar Dinner last year. It is worth mentioning that GCU is the pioneer educational institution which has Endowment Fund Trust.

(09-09-2008)

GCU to arrange fund raising Iftar Dinner

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The Endowment Fund Trust GC University Lahore is arranging a Fund raising Iftar Dinner on September 7, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. The funds collected through this Iftar Dinner would be used to extend financial support to the deserving and needy students and development projects of GCU. The Vice Chancellor GCU, Dr. Khalid Aftab and President of the Endowment Fund Trust, Mr. Jawaid Tariq Khan would distribute the souvenirs among the donors who contributed in Iftar Dinner 2007. Mr. Iqbal Z. Ahmed, Mian Misbah-ur-Rehman, Iqbal Ahmad Qarshi, Mian Muhammad Ashraf, Dr. Akmal Ch., Mr. Riazwan Ullah, Mr. Javed Noel, Mian Muhammad Anwar, Mr. Javaid Oberoi, Mr. Javed Altaf, Mr. Hamza Sufi, Mian Daud Afzal, Ms. Seemi Elahi, Dr. Zaheer Ahmed Siddiqi, Mr. Mustafa Khan, Mr. Shameem Ahmad, Mr. Sikandar M. Khan, Syed Bashir, Mr. Shafqat Rana, Prof. Ahmed Hussain, Mr. Parvaiz Bhandara and Mr. G. M. Piracha are the important donors who would receive the souvenirs.

(06-09-2008)

GCU holds reunion dinner for 1960’s old Ravians. Rs 4 million donated to Endowment Funds for future developments

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The GCU Lahore Endowment Fund Trust (GCUEFT) organized a re-union of the Old Ravian luminaries who remained associated with then Government College and now CUU during the decade of 1960s. Dr. Saeed-ul-Hassan donated one million and another also donated Rs One million on behalf of his parents.  Three other institutions also announced one million rupees each. While scholarships of Rs. One Million were sponsored by Syed Babar Ali in the name of his brother Syed Amjad Ali.

Vice Chancellor GC University Lahore Prof. Dr. Khalid Aftab while speaking on the occasion said that his administration was trying to set new academic standards by introducing time driven and market oriented disciplines and by equipping the scientific laboratories, adding more staff members, developing the campus and extending modern research facilities at the campus. He said that all these activities required generous funding for which the Old Ravians should pay back to their alma-mater. The Vice Chancellor urged the Old Ravians to contribute to the endowment fund of the GC University Lahore as he quoted “an institution is as good as its resources”, he also told that GCU allocated Rs. 10 million for the poor and the deserving students of the institution. While talking about the exceptional achievements of the institution Dr. Khalid Aftab said that GCU remained a premier institution as college and later as a university with excellent academic performance throughout its 144 years of existence and its tradition is of excellence has maintained its perpetual continuity as it has been placed at 6^th position by HEC amongst 70 public and private universities of the country. He said that GCU being a public sector institution has to compromise its urgent developing needs due to paucity of funds and to bridge the resource gap. The Endowment Fund Trust (EFT) has been set up to raise funds to carry on the fast pace of development in line with the need of time.  He also said that the GCU was the only institution in the country which has not seen any turmoil during the last 144 years of his tenure and GCU has been arranging dramas, invited lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, training sessions, discussions and symposiums in order to develop the innovative and creative nature of the students and staff further.

The Vice Chancellor also presented “Mark of Honor shields” to philanthropists including Syed Babar Ali and Dr. Saeed-ul-Hassan for their generous donation to GCU Endowment Fund Trust. Dr. Pervaiz Hassan received the shield on behalf of Syed Babar Ali.  

Dr. Pervaiz Hassan Vice President GCU EFT Executive Committee said that GCU bestowed upon him confidence and vision and he had firm determination to pay back to his alma-mater. He also said that new campus at Kalashah Kakoo would be the state of the art campus with latest laboratories. Dr. Saeed-ul-Hassan also addressed and urged the GCU administration to make strong academic plan in order to become one of the top 500 universities of the world. He said GCU Lahore had illustrious history of splendid traditions and a chain of men of letters from all walks of life and this feature distinguishes the institution from others. He said be it sports, academics, politics, science or arts, this university has always produced men of high caliber and acquired greater reputation at national and international level.

Earlier, Aftab Ahmed Sheikh Fund Manager GCUEFT in his welcome address briefed regarding the mechanism of the utilization of donated fund and said that any contribution received whether small or big will remain intact forever as the fund shall be invested in no risk investment schemes and annual profit thus earned would be utilized for GCU deserving students, faculty development and initiation of new development projects.  

Later, a wonderful musical program was also organized. Nida Faiz made her mesmerizing performance by singing Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Ghazlas of 1960’s. Members of GCU Nazir Ahmed Music Society (NAMS) also presented melodious songs of 1960s in order to remind the Old Ravians the music of their time. The singers of the NAMS included Rabia Akram, Azmat Saeed, Faraz, Asif Ali Amin, Yasir Mehmood, Imran Fida, Ms. Iqra, Aasma Gillani, Inam Ali Khan, Zain Irshad, Saad Farooq, Shoaib Abas, and Zahid Farani.

(14-04-2008)

GCU Endowment Fund Trust organises Old Ravians reunion on April 12, 2008

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The GC University Lahore Endowment Fund Trust is organizing a reunion of Old Ravians who were studying in the sixties at the Bokhari auditorium on April 12 (Saturday) at 7:30 pm. Madam Farida Khanam and members of GCU Nazir Ahmed Music Society will sing melodious songs of 1960s to arouse nostalgia in the audience.

The distinguished old Ravians of the class of 1960 include Mian Nawaz Sharif, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Mir Zafarullah Jamali, Aitzaz Ahsan, Khawaja Asif, Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali, Sardar Latif Khosa, Khurshid Mahmood Qasuri, Mian Mohammad Azher, Arif Nizami, Najam Sethi, Majid Khan, Aftab Gul, Ilyas M. Chaudhry, Mian Muhammad Mansha, Saleem Sehgal, Tariq Saeed Sehgal, Iqbal Qarshi, Yousuf Salahuddin, Wasif Ali, Izzat Majid, Sarmad Amin, Khawaja Nadeem Ahmad, Saeed Baksh, Mian Maher Ahmad, Mian Humayon Naseer, Mushtaq Sufi and Shahid Nadeem.

All those Ravians from the 1960s who want to participate in the reunion function may contact Aftab Ahmad Sheikh, Fund Manager of GCU Endowment Fund Trust, on phone numbers: 9210555 or 0300-8463075.

(08-04-2008)

GCU ENDOWMENT FUND RAISES RS. 7 MILLION THIS YEAR

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The Government College University (GCU) Endowment Fund has raised Rs. 7 Million this year, GCU-EF Executive Secretary Khalid Manzoor Butt told Daily Times on Sunday.

Butt said the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has asked all public universities last year to establish endowment funds to finance their development projects and meet other needs. He said the money would be spent to upgrade the school and to meet the need of deserving students. He said that about 6000 students were enrolled at the university. He said that only deserving students were being given scholarships, which was bout 20 % of the fee. “Because most students are from the lower stratum of society, providing them scholarship is essentially important,” he added.

GCU Endowment Fund president and highnoon Laboratories Chairman Jawaid Tariq Khan toldDaily times that the primary objective of the fund was to make GCU financially independent. He said foreign universities had well-established endowment funds to meet the needs of deserving students. “Schools like Cambridge, Harvard and Oxford receive million of dollars annually through their endowment funds,” he said “Financial independence is playing an important role in the performance of these schools,” he added.

(03-12-2007)

(Courtesy Daily Times)

GCU GETS 371 Acres LAND and RS 531 Million to ESTABLISH NEW CAMPUS AT KALASHAH KAKU

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“An institution that gets stagnant over a long span of time lags behind its contemporary institutions as the world keeps on moving ahead. When all the world institutions were marching with the pace of time, we were lost in our past glory while not realizing that  much was to be done to uplift GCU into a world class institution”. It was expressed by the Vice Chancellor GCU Lahore Prof. Dr. Khalid Aftab in his presidential address on the eve of musical evening organized by the GCU’s Endowment  Fund Trust participated by the eminent Old Ravians of 1930 to 1960.

GCU has two major projects in hand i.e., Up-gradation of Old campus and construction of new campus at Kalashah Kaku, Lahore. Punjab government has allotted GCU 371 acres of land and 531 million rupee grant for its development. HEC has promised to provide funds for the future developments of the GCU. But the sons of this great institution must come forward and donate generously for the uplifting of their alma-mater. 

He asserted that GCU was located in a land-locked place where there are no chances of horizontal expansion of the building. He also said that the university had no suitable resources for long time even to repair the magnificent historical monument of gymnasium which was erected in 1858. But with the passage of time, some philanthropists, HEC and the Government provided some funds for the conservation and renovation of this building. He avowed that the gymnasium conservation would be completed till March 2008 and it would be transformed into an excellent Centre for South Asian Studies.

He told the Old Ravians that GCU started its Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences with the help of HEC in a building gifted by the government of the Punjab as GC University itself did not have any place to  accommodate this program. While briefing about the significance of the SMS, he said that 94 students were doing Ph. D under the supervision of 33 top class foreign faculty from USA, CARS, Russia,  Germany, Romania, Italy, UK.

The President of the Endowment Fund Trust of GCU Javed Tariq Khan said on this occasion that government granted funds are not good enough to meet the development challenges of GCU and to fulfill the same objective, Old Ravians will have to contribute in the form of wealth, donations or endowments to their alma mater on the pattern of Harvard university Endowment Fund which has over seven billion US Dollar Fund in its endowment.  He also stressed on the financial independence while emphatically declaring it a key to academic and intellectual liberty. He also urged the Old Ravians to return to their alma mater what their alma mater bestowed upon them.

The Fund Manager of the Endowment Fund Trust Aftab Ahmed Sheikh also spoke on the occasion. “Since it is a public sector institution and operates on a minimal fee structure and grants by the government of Pakistan, it has to compromise its development needs due to paucity of funds”, he asserted and suggested that in order to bridge the resource gap and to carry the fast pace of development of GCU, the Endowment Fund while keeping into account the legacy of an immense heritage of   illustrious traditions, the Old Ravians should come forward and donate as much possible to give GCU a resource reservoir of a unprecedented size in the country.

Later, the musical melodies of the 1930 to 1960 were presented by the members of the Nazir Ahmed Musical Society. Prof. Dr. Amjad Pervaiz and others also presented melodious songs and ghazals along with young performers.

(19-1-2007)

GCU EFT to arrange Musical evening for Old Ravians 1930-1960 on 17th Nov

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Endowment Fund Trust of GC University Lahore has planned to organize a musical evening to recall and re-address the good old days passed by the Old Ravians during 1930 - 1960 on 17^th November 2007 in the Bokhari auditorium of the university. Prominent Old Ravins Syed Baber Ali, Dr. Pervaiz Hasan, Syed Shamim Yazdani, Salman Taseer, Shoaib Hashmi, Aftab Cheema, Kamal Azfar, Anwar A Chaudhry, Pervaiz Masud, Khalid Ahmad  Kharal, Amjad Pervaiz, Tasneem Noorani, Latif Khan Khosa, Shafqat Rana, Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali, Brig. Hamad Nawaz, G. M. Paracha besides number of Old Ravians who had been associated with this great institution during the prescribed decades are expected to participate in this graceful function.

Prominent Old Ravins Syed Baber Ali, Dr. Pervaiz Hasan, Syed Shamim Yazdani, Salman Taseer, Shoaib Hashmi, Aftab Cheema, Kamal Azfar, Anwar A Chaudhry, Pervaiz Masud, Khalid Ahmad  Kharal, Amjad Pervaiz, Tasneem Noorani, Latif Khan Khosa, Shafqat Rana, Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali, Brig. Hamad Nawaz, G. M. Paracha besides number of Old Ravians who had been associated with this great institution during the prescribed decades are expected to participate in this graceful function.

The GCU Nazir Ahmed Music Society has been assigned to conduct the program proceedings by presenting ever green melodies.             

(13-11-2007)