JHELUM (DNA) – Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Sunday is scheduled to lay the foundation stone of Al-Qadir University for Sufism – that is believed to give both Islamic and scientific education to the students and help them become morally, intellectually and spiritually accomplished persons – in Sohawa, an administrative subdivision of Jhelum District of Punjab.

On Saturday, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Syed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari visited Sohawa to review and finalise arrangements for the stone-laying ceremony.

Speaking at the site of university, the PM’s special assistant said that the concept of setting up the Al-Qadir University was to realize the prime minister’s dream of providing equal opportunities of education to the youth.

Bukhari said besides contemporary studies of religions with emphasis on Sufism in order to revive the Islamic research culture among the youth, the university would also have focus on science and technology.

He said no university existed between Gujrat and Rawalpindi, and therefore, Sohawa has been selected to establish the university to cater to the educational needs of area youth.

PM Khan has a vision to transform Pakistan into a welfare state on the pattern of State of Madina and establishing such institutions to impart Islamic teachings to youths.