National Law University to start functioning in March
Staff Report

ISLAMABAD—The National Law University (NLU) with campuses in all the four provinces will start functioning in March, an HEC official said.
The official said the university would have linkages with other international institutions imparting legal education and carrying out research,” he said.
Under Phase-I of the project, he said the classes would start simultaneously at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi campuses where the buildings have been acquired and high-tech facilities provided forstudents and the faculty as well. In the next phase, the classes would be started at Peshawar and Quetta campuses, he added.
The official said the university would help improve quality oflegal profession, the bar and the bench as the faculty would be hired on Tenure Track System with excellent salary packages approvedby the Ministry of Finance.
HEC had sent 25 young law graduates to top internationaluniversities for higher studies last year who would be offered jobsin NLU on their return, he said.