University of Management and Technology (UMT) held a ceremony in memory of Founder UMT & ILM Dr. Hassan Sohaib Murad (Shaheed) at its Johar Town campus Lahore.
Governor Ch Mohammad Sarwar, Pakistani Atomic Scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, Khursheed Kasuri, Mehmood-Ur-Rasheed, Fareed Piracha,President UMT Ibrahim Hasan Murad, Muhammad Ali Durrani, Ameerul Azeem, Sohail Warraich, Amjad Islam Amjad, Chairman UMT Dr. Ahmad Omer Murad, Vice Chairman Farooq Murad, Rector UMT Dr. Muhammad Aslam, UMT staff, faculty, students and people from all walks of life attended the event.
Sarwar said that people like Dr. Hassan are very rare because the motto of his life was to serve others through education. He spent his whole life to contribute in the nation building and gave his life on this path of social service. He also said that our society needs more people like Dr Hassan Sohaib Murad Shaheed and he will always be remembered as a visionary. Death of Dr. Hassan Sohaib is a great loss not only for his family & UMT but for whole Muslim Ummah, he added.
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan said that Hassan Sohaib Murad was a great Educationist and he always struggled to promote higher education & research and UMT is true model of his vision and efforts in this regard. He said that I inaugurated UMT along with Dr Hassan Murad and today I am very happy to see that the small plant has become a large full grown tree sharing the shadow & fruits of education. He told that the services of Dr. Hassan in the field of education are unforgettable and he was a true asset for our country which is gone but left a rich legacy of education, nationalism & prosperity. Dr. Hassan not only gave education to the youth of the nation but also taught them to be good human beings.