ISLAMABAD: Chairperson of newly established SASSI University Dr. Maria Sultan Monday said that Pakistan requires outside the box approach of knowledge partnership for overcoming challenges.
Addressing the launching ceremony of the university, Maria Sultan, also renowned defence analyst, said that today Pakistan faces enormous challenges as "we stand at the threshold of the 21st Century with baggage of 19th Century." She added that global security has transformed tremendously with changes in research, technology and inter-state relations and ever changing dynamics of security itself. She was addressing the launching ceremony of SASSI University, here on Monday.
Dr. Maria Sultan, while introducing the South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI) University, expressed her gratitude to the President of Pakistan for providing the patron-ship to the University, and the Defence Minister of Pakistan, and the SASSI advisory board as well for their unconditional support to the University. "We are happy to announce that SASSI University is a premier institute of higher learning which is geared to provide the nation a response capability to deal with growing challenges, adding that it is only through knowledge that we can bring Pakistan forward and out of these challenges." She addressed the ceremony.
The courses offered at the SASSI University on National Security, Peace Studies, Media Sciences, Counter-terrorism and Intelligence Studies are just few courses designed to enable the nation and the next generation to meet the paradoxes with knowledge, Dr. Maria informed. "Pakistan has faced challenges which have been unprecedented both in terms of the nature, scale and degree of conflict and threats faced." She expressed. She was of the view that Pakistan requires an outside the box approach for the changing environments and to prepare Pakistan for the challenges.
Source: Daily Times
