October 5, 2001

Pakistan Will Establish a Virtual University

Daniel del Castillo

Pakistan's Ministry of Science and Technology has announced plans to establish a virtual university. The institution, which is to be called simply the Virtual University, will be the first of its kind in Pakistan when it opens in February.

"The driving factor in the establishment of the Virtual University was the shortage of manpower for the IT sectors in Pakistan," said Naveed Malik, a professor of computer science at Punjab University, in