# Tahir Amin

tahir amin (Urdu: طاہر امین‎, born 13 March 1952 - 5 April, 2019) was a Pakistani political scientist who served as the Vice Chancellor of Bahauddin Zakariya University, in Multan, Pakistan. Amin also held additional charge of the Vice Chancellor of Women University Multan.Previously, he was the Iqbal Chair at the Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (c.1997-2001, succeeding Akbar S. Ahmed, followed by Tahir Kamran). He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988), a Masters in International Relations from Carleton University, Canada (1978), and a B.A. in International Relations from Quaid-i-Azam University (1976).