Where art thou? : Without VC, Punjab University plunges into executive crisis
LAHORE: Chaos and difficulty reigns over Punjab University after a Lahore High Court sequence transposed behaving clamp chancellor Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran with Dr Zafar Mueen Nasar. The Express Tribune has learnt that a disaster to emanate a presentation to this outcome has left a varsity in an executive void.
On Monday, a LHC destined a supervision to designate behaving clamp chancellors during 4 open zone universities after stealing people now occupying those positions. A multiplication bench, headed by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, systematic a provisional appointment of Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed, Dr Mohammad Zubair, Dr Zafar Mueen Nasar and Dr Rukhsana Kausar as behaving clamp chancellors of University of Sargodha, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Engineering and Technology in Multan, Punjab University and a Lahore College for Women University, respectively.
The administration and teachers of a Punjab University are left confused over a using of affairs in a arise of a justice decision, while day-to-day workings are also crippled due to a Higher Education Department’s (HED’s) disaster to surprise a university administration. The predicament has led to an unfixed check of a university’s 125th convocation.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Punjab University Academic Staff Association (ASA) Secretary Dr Mahboob Hussain pronounced there was difficulty amid teachers as a hospital most has no clamp chancellor. “After a judgment, there are dual clamp chancellors of a university. However, Dr Mujahid Kamran had not been private by a HED and Dr Mueen Zafar has not been told to take office. This difficulty caused by authorities has led to executive problems during a varsity.”
When contacted, Punjab University’s Spokesperson Khurram Shahzad pronounced a hospital has not perceived any presentation by a provincial government. When asked about a executive problems and check in a convocation, he pronounced a arise was scheduled for Saturday, Dec 24, 2016. However, it was deferred due to executive reasons. He pronounced a new date would be announced later, though did not endorse a specific time.
An HED official, seeking anonymity, told The Express Tribune that a dialect was watchful for a approved duplicate from a LHC after that it would emanate notifications for a new behaving clamp chancellors.
Punjab Minister for Higher Education Syed Raza Ali Gillani and HED Secretary Nasim Nawaz were contacted several times on Tuesday and Wednesday, though did not respond to requests for comments on when a new behaving clamp chancellors would be told by a department.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 22nd, 2016.
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