Government College for Men, Nazimabad is an all-male degree college

College

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 located in Karachi

Karachi

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, Pakistan

Pakistan

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 adjacent to the flyover located in Nazimabad

Nazimabad

Nazimabad is a middle-class suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.Nazimabad was developed starting in 1952 to settle Muslim refugees in Pakistan. This suburb was named after Khawaja Nazimuddin who was the second Governor-General of Pakistan, and later the second Prime Minister of Pakistan as well...

 town.

History

The college was established in 1956 under the name of Central Government College for Men to provide higher education to the newly settled and prominent area of Nazimabad

Nazimabad

Nazimabad is a middle-class suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.Nazimabad was developed starting in 1952 to settle Muslim refugees in Pakistan. This suburb was named after Khawaja Nazimuddin who was the second Governor-General of Pakistan, and later the second Prime Minister of Pakistan as well...

 in Karachi

Karachi

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. The college was taken over by the Government of Sindh

Government of Sindh

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 in 1961, and since then named as Government College for Men, Nazimabad.

Faculty and departments

The College has the following three faculties:

• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Commerce

Following is the list of departments:

• Department of Mathematics
  Mathematics
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• Department of Statistics
  Statistics
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• Department of Botany
  Botany
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• Department of Zoology
  Zoology
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• Department of Chemistry
  Chemistry
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• Department of Physics
  Physics
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• Department of Information Technology
  Information technology
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• Department of Urdu
  Urdu
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• Department of English
  English language
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• Department of Library Science
  Library science
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• Department of Commerce
  Commerce
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Library

The college library is situated in front of the main entrance of the college. Today, the college library has a collection of over 18,500 reference books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, manuals, atlases, etc.

Principals

This is a chronological list of figures that have served as Principals of the college:

• Dr. Athar Rasheed
• Prof. Abdul Mateen
• Dr. S. Safdar Hussain
• Dr. S. M. H. Jafri
• Dr. S. M. Ahmed
• Dr. M. A. Rauf
• Prof. Rashid Ahmed Khan
• Dr. A. Salam
• Prof. N. A. Farooqi
• Prof. A. R. A. Samo
• Prof. Zahir Ahmed
• Prof. Abdul Latif
• Prof. Kamaluddin
• Prof. M. A. Hai Moosa
• Prof. Syed Kamaluddin
• Prof. Jamal Ashraf Ansari
• Prof. Abdul Wahab Khan
• Prof. Mazharul Haq
• Prof. S.Khursheed Haider Zaidi
• Prof. Muhammad Zarrar Khan