The Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal Urdu University owes it origin from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, which was established in the year 2003. The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in this university was founded in response to the need of better drug delivery system in hospital and retail pharmacy and also to cater the ever growing need of Pharmaceutical Industry. The development of pharmacy education at Federal Urdu University is very rapid and in a very short span of time it has occupied a prominent position as Pharmacy Teaching Institution. The erstwhile Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences was raised into full fledge Faculty of Pharmacy in the year 2008. About 500 students are pursuing their studies to the award of degree of Doctor of Pharmacy. First batch of Pharm.D. was passed out in the year 2008. There are four well established departments in the faculty. The faculty has got recognition from Pharmacy Council of Pakistan. This is only faculty of Pharmacy with federal existence
The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology enjoys the unique distinction of being the first ever university in Pakistan, which ultimately aims at using Urdu as the main language of instruction and teaching.. The University was established on 13th November 2002 under Ordinance No. CXIX of 2002 promulgated by the President of Pakistan. As per provision of this ordinance the university has its principal seat at Islamabad . The university started functioning in November 2002 by taking over two federal government colleges namely Federal Urdu Science College, Karachi which were established in 1949 by Baba-e-Urdu Dr. Abdul Haq whose mission was only to promote urdu as teaching and also for urdu language as national language. He remains struggling till his last moment of life.The principal seat of the university at Islamabad commenced its teaching programs in November 2003. To begin with, the university established two faculties viz Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences and Faculty of Information technology and Computer Science with immediate focus on teaching the subjects of Business Administration and Computer Science. The university may establish any number of colleges, institutes and campuses anywhere in or out side Pakistan as may be prescribed...