PESHAWAR: Two faculty members of the Pakistan Study Centre at the University of Peshawar (UoP) have been promoted following recommendations by the Board of Governors.
Dr Khan Faqir has been promoted from assistant professor to associate professor, while Dr Tariq Amin has been promoted from lecturer to assistant professor.
Dr Khan Faqir, who had been serving as an assistant professor at the Pakistan Study Centre, holds a PhD in History and has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience.
His areas of expertise include Pakistan Studies, political history, constitution-making, governance, and the history of Pakistan’s judicial and legal institutions. His research interests cover the evolution of the judiciary in Pakistan, relations between the executive and judiciary, constitutional developments, governance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, human rights, and legal and institutional history.
He has published more than 50 research papers in national and international journals and is currently supervising a number of MPhil and PhD scholars.
Dr Tariq Amin, meanwhile, has been associated with the Pakistan Study Centre as a lecturer since 2015. He was promoted to assistant professor in recognition of his active contribution to teaching, research and other academic activities.
Director of the Pakistan Study Centre, Prof Dr Shahbaz Khan, along with faculty members, administrative staff and students, congratulated both teachers on their promotions.
They expressed hope that Dr Khan Faqir and Dr Tariq Amin would continue contributing to the centre’s academic and research activities as well as its overall development and welfare.
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