In the 1970s, pharmacy education in Pakistan was still largely modeled on outdated British systems, with little relevance to local healthcare challenges. Prof. Dr. Mian Naim Anwar Muzaffar led a revolutionary shift by designing and implementing Pakistan’s first indigenous pharmacy curriculum, tailored to the needs of a developing healthcare system.

•  key Reforms Introduced Replaced over 70% of the British pharmacopoeia-based syllabus with locally relevant modules.

• Integrated studies on tropical and endemic diseases (e.g., malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis).

• Introduced cost-effective pharmaceutical formulation techniques suited to Pakistan’s economic realities.

• Added courses on Unani and herbal medicine, acknowledging the country’s rich ethnobotanical heritage and patient reliance on traditional systems.