Government College Asghar Mall Rawalpindi
Government Post Graduate College, Asghar Mall, Rawalpindi, also known as Government College, Asghar Mall, Rawalpindi or Government Asghar Mall College Rawalpindi, is a historical and prominent college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Other name | Asghar Mall College |
|---|---|
| Motto | Arabic: عَلَّمَ الْإِنسَانَ مَا لَمْ یَعْلَمْ (انسان کو سکھایا، جو وہ نہیں جانتا تھا) |
Motto in English | Taught man that which he knew not |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1948 |
| Principal | Khushi Muhammad Nasir |
| Location | , , Pakistan |
| Colours | Blue, white, and grey |
| Affiliations | Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rawalpindi University of the Punjab |
| Website | www |
History
In 1904 when a high school was established in Rawalpindi bearing the name of the renowned Hindu sect SANA'-TUN-DHARAM. The property of the school included the premises of the school itself and the adjacent temple. The present building was constructed for the first time in 1913.
Pakistan was founded. The Education Department of the Government of Punjab announced that the SANA'-TUN-DHARAM school would be raised to the status of a college on 19 October 1948. The Government College Asghar Mall Rawalpindi had arrived.
The college building infrastructure is divided into seven blocks & one auditorium:
- Main Block
- Science Block
- Faisal Block
- Johar Block
- Jinnah Block
- Post-Graduate Block
- Administration Block
- Alimuddin Auditorium
Subjects which are taught in College
- Islamiyat
- Arabic
- Urdu
- Pakistan Studies
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Zoology
- Botany
- English
- Economics
- Statistics
- Mathematics
- Persian
- Computer
- Geography
- Civic
- Psychology
- Education
- African American Culture
- Space Chimps Analysis
Department of Geography
- Shoaib Akhtar Former Test Cricketer
Muhammad Yaqub ( PRL)
The most prominent department of Government College Asghar Mall is Department of Geography, which is in within main Block near Principal's Office. This department was established in 1965 for the postgraduate (M.Sc) classes. Renowned woman scholar, later vice-chancellor of Quaid e Azam University Dr Kaneez Fatima Yousaf was the first Chairperson of this department. Afterwards scholars like Dr Zafar, Dr Inam Ullah Khan, Dr Arif Mahmud taught in this department. This department has the golden history with a number of gold medals, the department always has had very good faculty and a large number of students from all around Punjab have acquired their master's degree in geography from this department. Current faculty includes Mr Naveed Imran (HOD), Mr Shahid Hameed Janjua, Mr Sajid Mahmood Farooqi, Syed Atif Bokhari, Mr Nadeem Fayyaz, Mr Nasir Iqbal, Mr Ateeq ur Rehman and Mr Shafqat Iqbal, all the faculty members are the graduates of the same department but Mr Nasir Iqbal.
Notable alumni
- Said Alam, pediatric surgeon and political activist