LARKANA: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has inaugurated the University of Larkano, an important step toward opening up new opportunities for higher education for the youth of Larkana and its surrounding areas, and toward promoting public-sector higher education in Sindh.

According to a press release issued by Media Cell Bilawal House, the PPP Chairman inaugurated the University of Larkano together with Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah. On the occasion, he also toured the university's departments of Social Sciences and Humanities, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Law. Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Naik Muhammad Shaikh briefed Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on the university's establishment, academic structure and the various departments.

The briefing explained that the University of Larkano has been formed by merging the former Larkana campuses of the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, and Quaid-e-Awam University, along with the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Agricultural College and the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Law College. The university offers a range of subjects across the faculties of social and human sciences, engineering and technology, agricultural sciences and law.

The Vice Chancellor added that the university has been established to contribute to the educational, social and economic development of Larkana and the whole of Sindh, and to give the region's youth better opportunities for higher education.