Persian
Vision
To promote Persian language and literature that can act as a bridge between the regions with common geographical, cultural and lingual ties.
Mission
To define new directions of research to implement various forms of learning by providing best quality and goal oriented education that will help and encourage the students to build up their professional skills and guide them to find the best opportunities to work as researchers, translators, interpreters and teachers.
Introduction
Persian is spoken by 120 million people not just in Iran, but also in Afghanistan and Central Asia. Learning Persian language is not only a source of developing our relations with Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and other Persian regional countries but also helps in complete understanding Urdu language, literature and Allama Iqbal’s poetry. In addition, a great treasure of religious books is in Persian language and many other have been translated in Persian language. These books are an authority in religious and religious teachings too. The department of Persian is newly established in GCUF with a view to provide facilities for advanced studies and research in the fields of Persian language and literature with particular emphasis on the literature produced in the Indo-Pak subcontinent during the last nine centuries, and to familiarize the younger generation of this country with the history, language and literature of Iran. Students of this Department continue to enter a variety of vocational fields, some of which are CSS, Advertising, Media, Banking, Business, Translation / Interpreting, Teaching, Educational Administration & Research, News agencies, Foreign Ministry, Central Asia Trading etc.