Dr Hasan Sohaib Murad, Rector UMT, delivered the keynote address on “Vision 2013: The Road Ahead”. He said the renewal of his term as Rector had helped him to renew his commitment to UMT. Making UMT No.1 was his top priority in this term and this could be achieved by leap-frogging rather than waiting for time to run its due course. He said that he wanted UMT to be at the top of the global knowledge community and become an agent of change. In order to do this, the Rector said that a lot of back tasking needed to be done. Describing his future strategy for UMT, he said that he wanted UMT to shift more to research, even at the undergraduate level. He said that benchmarking needed to be done against the best in the world, preferably by following the American model. Evaluation and assessment of students also needed to be done according to the American Model. For the future, he also envisaged a faculty linkage program with the global community whereby UMT faculty members would spend time in a foreign university. The Rector also said that the well being of the students was a top priority.

Dr A R Kausar, Pro-Rector UMT, appreciated the leadership and vision of Dr Hasan and said that his operational strengths had helped UMT grow to its present stature. He observed that as ILM entered upon its twentieth year, he was confident that the strength, past history and leadership of Dr Hasan would take it to greater heights.

Dr Abdul Raouf, SI, University Professor and Advisor, advised everyone to build on their strengths in order to achieve their goals. He said that he was very happy to be associated with UMT. Now at the age of eighty, he kept himself updated in order to satisfy his students and still worked hard because he had to plan ahead for them.

Abid H K Shirwani, one of the two founding members, revived memories of the days when he was working along with Dr Hasan to set up ILM. He said that the dream of the Late Khurrum Murad had been realized.

Nauman Nadeem, Abrar M Khan, Muhammad Anwar, Ahmad Abdullah, Col (Retd) Zafar Ali, Ahmad F Siddiqui, Muhammad Nazim, Naseem Zafar Iqbal, Dr Abdul Hameed, and Professor Aslam spoke briefly about their experiences at UMT. A G Ghaffari, Director EFP, conducted the event.

At the end, Rana Iftikhar Ahmad, Head OPA, presented a souvenir to Dr Hasan Sohaib Murad. A special anniversary cake was also cut on the occasion.