KARACHI: Sadia Rashid, President of Hamdard Foundation Pakistan and Pakistan Historical Society, has appointed Professor Dr Syed Jafar Ahmed, a distinguished expert in social sciences, as Secretary General of the Society, on the recommendation of the Executive Committee of the Pakistan Historical Society. .
Dr. Syed Jafar Ahmed has extensive experience in education, teaching and research, having served as Director of the Center for Pakistan Studies at the University of Karachi for 18 years. He is currently Director of the Institute of Historical and Social Research and serves as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Sohail University, Karachi.
The Pakistan Historical Society is a research organization established in 1950 by history scholars to promote and develop research on various aspects of the national history of Pakistan. The founder of Hamdard Pakistan, Shahid Hakim Muhammad Saeed, accepted the patronage of the society in 1978. Since 1953, the society has published Historicus, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal of scholarly research papers on history.