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Ghulam Mustafa received a Ph.D. (2004) in mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), P. R. China, sponsored by the Cultural Exchange Scholarship of China. He also visited, School of Mathematical Sciences, USTC in 2010 to do collaborative research under the "Pakistan Program for Collaborative Research-Foreign Visit of a Local Faculty Member." In 2011, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Durham University, UK, funded by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK. He was a visiting fellow at the University of Science and Technology of China from 2013–2014, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He has been Professor of Mathematics and Chairperson of the Department of Mathematics at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan, since 2016. He is the organizer of national and international conferences, webinars and the Mathematical Olympiad. He has presented articles at national and international conferences.

He has completed two research projects sponsored by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan under the "National Research Program for Universities (NRPU)". He is the supervisor and mentor of the research project for the Science Talent Farming Scheme (STFS), sponsored by the Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF).

He has served and continues to serve as a chairman or member of various university councils, boards, and committees, including the senate, the finance and planning committee, the academic council, the advance studies and research board, the affiliation committee, the appeal committee for appeals to cases of indiscipline and misconduct-regulatory, the board of studies, the board for the management of group insurance funds, and others.

He is the author of the book titled "Subdivision its applications in solid modeling and signal compression".  It was published by VDM Verlag in 2010. He is also the author of the book titled "Memories and achievements of the Department of Mathematics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan, from 1979-2021". It was published by The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. He authored a book titled "The 20-Year Journey of the Computer-Aided Geometric Design Research Group in Pakistan." It was published on January 5, 2024.

He has published more than 120 research papers. He has supervised 11 PhD and 72 M.Phil. scholars up to now. He also serves as an editor, an associate editor, a leading guest editor of the journals, and a reviewer. He is a reviewer of PhD and M.Phil. theses from different universities. His research interests include geometric modelling, subdivision schemes, applied approximation theory, the solution of differential equations and Fuzzy graph.