It came into being as a result of an UNESCO resolution. Introduction
Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations (TIAC) (Centre for the Study of the Civilizations of Central Asia)
In 1967 Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, was authorized by Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan, to establish a "Centre for the Study of the Civilizations of Central Asia" in order to cooperate with UNESCO
as a participating member representing Pakistan in its program on Central Asia. In UNESCO there was proposal to expand the scope of the centre and make a comparative study of the civilizations of whole of Asia. With the consent of the Government of Pakistan, QAU accepted the proposal and accordingly the name of the centre was changed to Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations (TIAC) from "Centre for the Study of the Civilizations of Central Asia". The Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations is a constituent institute of the Quaid-i-Azam University. It came into being as a result of an UNESCO resolution in Paris in 1997 as a matured form of the Center for Central Asian Studies which had been founded in 1967. In 2007, the Institute was merged into the administrative framework of the Quaid-i-Azam University. The syndicate of the University approved the project, thus, accepted the TIAC as a constituent part of the University and permitted it to enrol students for M.Sc (Archaeology), M.Phil and Ph.D (Asian Studies) programs. Accordingly, TIAC got approved its courses for M. D in 2010 and enrolled students in all the three programmes in Spring-2011 academic year.
