Sukkur IBA University`s VC passes away.

SUKKUR -- Prominent educationist and founding vice chancellor of the Sukkur Institute of Business Administration (IBA) University, Prof Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui, died at a Karachi hospital on Monday after suffering a cardiac problem.

He was 76 and left behind three sons, four daughters and a large number of students to mourn his death.

Prof Siddiqui was founder of Sukkur IBA which he started from only two classrooms at Public School and transformed this small institution into a state-of-the-art campus that now ranked among top institutions of Pakistan.

A former bureaucrat and managing director of SITE Karachi, he was appointed director of Sukkur IBAin 2004 af ter his retirement. Thanks to his untiring efforts, Sukkur IBA became an independent degree-awarding institution in 2006 and a university in 2017 and he became itsfirst vice chancellor.

His dedication to education and commitment to the nation was recognised by the government of Pakistan and he was awarded Sitara-iImtiaz.

People belonging to different walks of life have expressed their grief over the death of Prof Siddiqi while Sukkur Deputy Commissioner Rana Adeel Tasawwur has announced local holiday on June 23 throughout the district to mourn the death of the great educationist.

Shah Abdul Latif University vice chancellor Prof Dr Parveen Shah has expressed her deep sorrow over the sad demise of Prof Siddiqi and said that he was a man of principle who never compromised on merit and excellence.

She said that his...