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Balochistan University Teachers threaten hunger strike
Queta, April 5, 2008: Teachers of the Balochistan University, whose services
were terminated after the promulgation of the controversial Model University
Ordinance by the former governor, have demanded their reinstatement within a
week and threatened to go on hunger strike from April 10 if their demand is not
met.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Prof Dr Agha Mohammad
Nasir and Prof Zakir Hussain Jadoon said they would initially observe a token
hunger strike from April 7.
They alleged that they had been sacked
because of their protests against the ordinance. They said that opposition
parties had submitted a resolution in the Balochistan Assembly but the session
could not be held, reportedly because of 'lack of quorum' on the advice of the
former governor.
They said that when the teachers started speaking
against the ordinance, the vice-chancellor and the university administration
threatened them with sacking.
They said Prof Dr Agha Mohammad Nasir, of
the Urdu department, had been fired by the vice-chancellor who claimed his
doctoral degree was fake.
The Quran Conference at IUB
Bahawalpur: A three-day national Quran conference opened at the
Abbasia Campus of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) here on
Friday.
In his inaugural address at the conference organised by the
Faculty of Islamic Learning, IUB Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Belal A Khan urged the
academia to play its role to steer the nation out of the prevailing turmoil. He
said the social condition of the Islamic world was characterised with
educational backwardness, widespread poverty, lawlessness and austerity, a lack
of democracy and inattention to Islamic laws. He said Muslims needed a dynamic
and inspiring leadership and commitment to come out of the prevailing
situation.
Prof Dr Mehmoodul Hassan Arif, president of Punjab
University's Idara-e-Muarif, said in his paper entitled "Quran Translation" that
the first-ever translation of the Holy Quran was accomplished in 3 A.H. in
Sindhi language. In the subcontinent, the first-ever translation of the Holy
Quran was done in Persian language in 18th century, he said, adding that about
700 translations had been recorded in Urdu language up till now. Dawn
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| Education News | | Updated: 09 Feb, 2012 |
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