Head of the Institue : Dr. Tariq Kifayatullah    Date of establishment : 1988    Field : Advanced Studies in Persian, Urdu and Arabic Languages    Tel : 01675-250883, 09464053177,91-1675-250883    Fax : 91-1675-250883    Addres : Nawab Sher Mohammad Khan Institute of Advanced Studies in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, Malerkotla-148023    Email : tariq_kifayat@yahoo.com , nsmkinst@yahoo.com    Url : http://punjabiuniversity.ac.in    More : Staff Name: Dr. Tariq Kifayatullah, Indo Persian Literature, Ph: 098550-44678 Punjabi University Patiala decided to establish an institute of higher learning in Oriental Studies at Malerkotla named after one of the founders of Malerkotla state, Nawab Sher Mohammed Khan, who had protested the cruel and inhuman killing of two sahibzadas of Guru Gobind Singh by the Governer of Sirhind Province. Hence Nawab Sher Mohammed Khan Institute of Advance Studies in Urdu, Persian and Arabic was inaugurated in October 1988 and has been working since then, vigorously to achieve its goals. The Institute provides the facilities of higher research in the area of Urdu/Persian Languages and Literature up to the level of Ph.D. Besides regular classes of M.A. (Persian), Certificate courses (Urdu, Persian and Arabic), PGDCA (1 YEAR) and CCA ( 6 MONTH) Certificate in Computer application are also being run. The Institute has a very rich and large library having a number of attractive titles of oriental languages to fulfill the needs of the scholars. A research magazine entitled 'Mujalla- e-Tahqiq' is being published annually since 1994.