No some-more delays: Court appoints VCs during 3 varsities
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has provisionally allocated vice-chancellors during 3 public-sector universities after stealing their predecessors while permitting another behaving VC to continue on a position.
On Nov 14, an LHC singular dais had systematic a dismissal of behaving vice-chancellors during these 4 universities and destined a Punjab supervision to fill a posts in suitability with law in one month.
On Monday, a multiplication dais headed by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah systematic a provisional appointment of Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed, Dr Mohammad Zubair and Dr Zafar Mueen Nasar as vice-chancellors of University of Sargodha, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Engineering and Technology in Multan and a Punjab University, respectively. Dr Uzma Qureshi has been authorised to continue as a vice-chancellor of Lahore College for Women University.
The justice picked adult these names from a list of nominees already finalised by a VCs hunt cabinet shaped by a government. The judges authorised a VCs of 7 other universities to continue compartment a petition is decided.
Those available to keep their offices are Dr Samina Amin Qadri of a Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi; Dr Hassan Amir Shah of Government College University, Lahore; Dr Rauf-e-Azam of a University of Education, Lahore; Dr Tahir Amir of Bahauddin Zakariya University of Multan; Dr Muhammad Khalique Ahmed of Ghazi University in Dera Ghazi Khan; Dr Talat Afzal of a Government Sadiq Degree College for Women University in Bahawalpur; and Dr Athar Mahboob of a Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology in Rahim Yar Khan.
The justice ruled that these VCs, who were allocated on Aug 27, 2015, shall provisionally act as VCs compartment a ordering of a present appeal.
The latest orders came on an interest of a Punjab government, severe a Nov 14 sequence of a LHC’s singular bench. The supervision had submitted a visualisation was opposite a law, contending a theme of preparation was devolved to a provinces after 18th Constitutional Amendment and appointment of VCs during public-sector universities fell within a provincial domain.
Further amendments, a supervision argued, have been brought in a laws associated to state-run universities by ‘The Public-Sector Universities (Amendment) Act, 2012’, providing an elaborate routine of appointment of VCs. The provincial supervision believes a appointment of VCs does not tumble within a ambit of a Higher Education Commission underneath ‘The Higher Education Commission Ordinance, 2002’.
The justice has released notices for Jan 12 to a respondents for submitting their replies. Notices were also sent to Attorney General of Pakistan and Advocate General of Punjab for authorised assistance.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 20th, 2016.
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