Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University is a women's university in

Quetta Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه‎) is the tenth most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in south-west of the country close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is the capital of ...

Balochistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

. It was established in 2004. The university offers degree programs in Arts and Sciences. It is named for the former agent to the

Governor General Governor-general (plural ''governors-general''), or governor general (plural ''governors general''), is the title of an office-holder. In the context of governors-general and former British colonies, governors-general are appointed as viceroy ...

and Chief Commissioner of Balochistan,

Sardar Bahadur Khan Khan Sardar Bahadur Khan ( ur, سردار بہادر خان) (born 8 July 1908– 31 December 1975) was a Pakistani politician. He was the 9th Chief Minister of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then called Northwest Frontier Province). Personal life ...

History

It was inaugurated on March 18, 2004 and Masters programs were started by May 2004. The

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...

program for sciences was started in 2005. The first convocation was held in the middle of 2006. The campus area is about , including a hostel facility and a library.

Convocation speech

Women education occupies great significance for the development of our society, because women are 51 percent of our population; they cannot be ignored in the development of the country.

This was stated by Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi while addressing 5th convocation of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University. He said he was personally supportive of women's education.

Bomb attack

As part of the

June 2013 Quetta attacks On 15 June 2013, a series of bombings and a subsequent siege resulted in the deaths of 26 people and injuries to dozens more. On the same day, separatist militants attacked and demolished the historic Quaid-e-Azam Residency in Ziarat. Attac ...

carried out by

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ; ur, ) or "Army of Jhangvi", is a Deobandi Sunni supremacist, terrorist and jihadist militant organisation based in Afghanistan. The organisation operates in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is an offshoot of anti-Shi ...

, a bus carrying students from the university was attacked with an explosive device. The resulting explosion killed 14 women and injured 19 others. It is believed that the intended targets of the bus bombing were Shia from the Hazara ethnic minority, who have been the targets of previous sectarian attacks in

. However, due to an earlier change of route, the bus carried a more ethnically mixed group and has been described as "the wrong target" of the perpetrators.https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21579886-no-honeymoon-nawaz-sharif-pakistans-terrorists-cruel-beyond-belief Balochistan: Cruel beyond belief

Academics

*Faculty of Life Sciences *Faculty of Basic Sciences *Faculty of Social Sciences *Faculty of Management & Computer Sciences

References

External links

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