Sufi University to start from Jan

Sindh government decides to establish Sufi University at Bhit Shah, will start functioning from January 2011.

KARACHI: The Sindh government decided to establish the Sufi University at Bhit Shah, Matiari district, which will start functioning from January 2011.

Sindh chief secretary Ghulam Ali Shah Pasha chaired a meeting at the Culture Centre on Thursday, where he proposed to start an institute for Sufi studies but the board agreed to open a university instead.

The proposal mentioned that the university will run on a regular academic calendar with additional vacations on holidays such as the urs of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. There will be permanent and visiting faculty and three major wings: Sufi thought and practice, mystic poetry and literature, South Asian arts.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 26^th, 2010.