HYDERABAD, April 9: Renowned scholar Dr N. A. Baloch has exhorted the youth to follow in the footsteps of scholars and reformers lead a life of purpose. Dr Baloch, a renowned scholar and intellectual, paid rich tributes to Allama I. I. Kazi in his address at the inauguration ceremony at the Sindh University’s Founder’s Week programmes. The week has been organised to pay homage to the great scholar, philosopher and founder of the university.

Services of great men should be acknowledged publicly, Mr Baloch said after planting a sapling in front of the institute of physics.

After Allama had selected a site for the university, he had invited a consultant, Dr Docker, from Germany to design institutes and departments in the university, he said.

Dr Docker had charged only one per cent of his fee for consultancy due to his personal relations with Allama Kazi, he said, adding that when the German consultant paid a visit to the university after seven years, he was surprised to see lush greenery and trees in the mountainous area.

Mr Baloch praised vice-chancellor of the university, Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, and stressed teachers and students to join hands for the development of the institution.

The deans of different faculties, directors of various departments and a large number of officers, students and university employees attended the ceremony.