In a converted laboratory at Punjab University, Dr. Naim Anwar  Muzaffar launched South Asia’s premier Master of Pharmacy program in 1974 after overcoming bureaucratic resistance. The rigorous two-year curriculum featured advanced biopharmaceutics, clinical therapeutics, and mandatory 300-hour rotations at Abbott Laboratories Karachi. His inaugural cohort of 32 students included future luminaries like Prof. Akhtar Rasul (Dean, PU Pharmacy 1992-2000) and Dr. Samina Qureshi (Chair, KU Pharmacy). By 1985, 14 graduates had assumed deanships nationwide, while the program became the template for Bangladesh’s 1979 and India’s 1982 M.Pharm initiatives.