Punjab University BA/BSc Annual Examinations 2010

BA/BSc exams
Lahore, Apr 14: The Punjab University's BA/BSc Annual Examinations will commence from Wednesday (today) in which 171,550 candidates will appear. The Punjab University (PU) spokesman said besides 527 exam centres in 25 districts of the province, examination centers have also been established in Gilgit and Quetta. He further said out of the 527 exam centres, 324 centers were for women candidates and 185 centers were for male candidates. He said a total number of 171,550 candidates were appearing in BA/BSc annual 2010 exam, out of which 112,000 were female candidates while the remaining 59,550 were male candidates.

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PU results
Lahore: The Punjab University (PU) Examinations Department announced the results of various examinations on Tuesday.

These exams included MPhil Home Economics, Semester System, Session 2008-2010, MPhil Solid State Physics, Session 2001-2003, MPhil Solid State Physics, Session 2007-2009, MSc Zoology, Part-I, Supplementary Examination 2009, MSc Botany (Two Years Programme), Semester System, Session 2007-2009, Master of Information Technology (MIT), First Year, Second Annual 2009, Master of Information Technology (MIT), Second Year, Second Annual 2009, BSc (Hons) Computer Science, Third Year, First Annual 2009, BSc (Hons) Computer Science, Fourth Year, First Annual 2009, BSc Computational Physics, Four Years (Morning), Semester System, Session 2005-2009, BSc Chemical Engineering & Technology, Semester System, Session 2005-2009, BSc (Hons) Biochemistry (Three Years), Semester System, Session 2002-2005, Diploma in Physical Education (Undergraduate), Annual 2009, Diploma in Chinese, Semester System, Session 2008-2009, Diploma in Italian, Semester System, Session 2008-2009, Diploma in Spanish, Semester System, Session 2008-2009, Diploma in Turkish, Semester System, Session 2008-2009, Diploma in Russian, Semester System, Session 2008-2009, Diploma in Japanese, Semester System, Session 2008-2009, Diploma in Balochi, Semester System, Session 2008-2009 and Diploma in Pashto, Semester System, Session 2008-2009.

Detailed results are available on university's website www.pu.edu.pk.

Meanwhile, the PU Examinations Department has postponed the practical examination of First Professional, Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm-D), 2nd Annual Examination 2009. The new schedule of the exam will be announced later. The news

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Civil society joins PUASA in anti-IJT protests
Lahore: Members of civil society, politicians, and NGO representatives joined the Punjab University's Academic Staff Association (PUASA) for a massive protest rally that began from the Old Campus at 11am and culminated with a sit-in by protesters at the Charing Cross at noon.

The protesters demanded a ban on student unions in Pakistan's institutions and requested Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to launch an operation in city colleges against Islami Jamiat Taliba (IJT) activists. The rally was led by ASA president professor Dr MM Saeed Akhtar and General Secretary Professor Javed Sami and included representatives of civil society and staff from the University of Health Sciences, Lahore Region Colleges Teachers Association and the Aurat Foundation. They chanted slogans against the IJT, sporting black ribbons and badges and carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans such as 'Go Jamiat Go'.

Ban on student unions: Pakistan People's Party MPA Sajida Mir said that Prime Minister lifted the ban on student unions for the welfare of the students, but IJT activists exploited this platform for vested interests. She demanded the government ban student unions and try such delinquents under the Anti-Terrorism Act to curb such acts of hooliganism. She said it was tragic that IJT activists beat a teacher.

Search operation: Human rights activist Saeeda Diep said IJT activists were torturing students and it was tragic that the Punjab government was acting like a silent spectator to the whole issue. She said Shahbaz Sharif should launch a search operation in the Islamia College Civil Lines and the Science College Wahdat Road, which she said are "IJT havens". Another human rights activist, Shahtaj Qizalbash, said such incidents of teachers' manhandling were shameful. Qizalbash expressed the hope that the four culprits along with their accomplices would be apprehended shortly. He announced that ASA general body meeting would be held on April 14 at 10am at the Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology, but no protest rally would be brought out afterward. The meeting would comprehensively review the latest situation and the media would be informed of the future line of action. Qizalbash said after the vacation of varsity hostels, the concerned officials were thoroughly checking and preparing lists of illegal occupants to cancel their allotments.

IJT rally: A number of IJT activists also took out a rally from the Civil Lines College towards the Charing Cross. The activists shouted slogans against varsity administration and condemned the rustication of certain IJT activists from PU. Daily times

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PU faculty to 'slow down' academic boycott
Lahore: The Punjab University faculty is considering slowing down its complete academic boycott in the wake of arrest of most of the nominated accused, who had made a life attempt on Prof Iftikhar Husain Baloch, and the academic loss of students in semester system studies.

Considering faculty feelings, the Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA) executive committee had reportedly discussed this issue after staging a protest on the 12th consecutive day on Tuesday and considered various options to "slow down" the academic boycott. The final decision will be taken by the PUASA general body in its meeting on Wednesday (today).

Early on Tuesday, the PUASA staged a protest rally on The Mall from PU Old Campus to Charing Cross. The protesters, wearing black armbands and protest badges, were carrying placards bearing inscriptions that the assailants belonging to the Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) should be arrested and given an exemplary punishment.

The PU faculty members as well as representatives of civil society organisations, teacher associations and NGOs, led by PUASA President Prof Dr Mahr Saeed Akhtar and secretary-general Prof Javed Sami, also staged a sit-in at the Charing Cross for a while.

As teachers marched on The Mall for about an hour, the motorists faced serious problems as traffic remained suspended.

Talking to newsmen, Prof Akhtar said the PU faculty would continue its protest till the arrest of all nominated accused and the restoration of respect and honour of university teachers. He said the faculty members would continue protest although it was their earnest desire that the classes should be resumed at the earliest.

He also thanked Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and senior police officials for their cooperation and support which resulted in the arrest of three out of the four culprits. He also expressed his hope that the fourth nominated accused as well as other over a dozen accomplices would be apprehended soon.

The PUASA president said the association would hold its general body meeting at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology at 10am on Wednesday (today), but no rally would be staged afterwards. He said the meeting would review the latest situation, and the media would be apprised of the future line of action, accordingly.

He said after the vacation of varsity hostels, the officials concerned were thoroughly checking and preparing lists of illegal occupants to cancel their allotments.

He said the PUASA was a non-political body that had nothing to do with political parties. He said the university teachers were holding peaceful protest demonstrations to record their protest against the attack on a senior colleague. Dawn

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PU teachers continue protest against torture
Lahore: Punjab University teachers on Tuesday took out yet another protest rally to condemn the assault on a faculty member by activists of the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) and demanded immediate arrest of all those involved in the incident.

The Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA) had organised the rally which started from the PU Old Campus, The Mall, and culminated at the Charing Cross near the Punjab Assembly.

PUASA President Prof Dr Mahr Muhammad Saeed Akhtar and Secretary General Prof Javed Sami led the rally in which besides PU teachers, representatives of civil society, college teachers and people from different walks of life also participated.

Wearing black armbands and badges and carrying banners and placards, inscribed with statements against Jamiat, the protestors also chanted anti-IJT slogans.

Talking to the media, Prof Mahr Saeed Akhtar reiterated the teachers' stance that unless all the major culprits and their accomplices involved in the assault on Prof Iftikhar Baloch were arrested, the PUASA would continue its boycott of classed, adding: ìAlthough it is teachersí earnest desire that the classes should be started afresh at the earliest.' He also expressed gratitude to Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and senior police officials, saying their cooperation and support had resulted in the arrest of three out of four culprits nominated in the FIR.

Prof Mahr said the ASA General Body meeting would be held on Wednesday (today) at 10am at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, but no protest rally would be brought out after the meeting.

He said the meeting would review the latest situation and the media would be apprised of the future line of action. He said that after the vacation of PU hostels, the officials concerned were speedily and thoroughly checking and preparing the lists of illegal occupants to cancel their allotments.

In response to a question, Prof Mahr said the ASA was a non-political body which had nothing to do with political parties. "The professors are university employees and our association is neither a political organisation nor are we playing politics,' he concluded. After observing a sit-in, the protestors dispersed peacefully.

Meanwhile, dozens of activists of the Islami Jamiat Talaba took out a rally on Tuesday to criticise the Punjab University (PU) administration for, what they termed, the unjust expulsion of students from the university. The rally started from the PU Old Campus and culminated at Charing Cross near the Punjab Assembly soon after the PU teachers rally on the same route against the IJT for injuring a senior teacher ended.

The protesting IJT activists termed the closure of PU as anti-education step, alleging that the VC was playing with future of students. IJT Lahore nazim Asghar Nazeer said that owing to the strike the PU teachers were enjoying leisure while sitting at their homes and drawing salaries.

'However, the students who are suffering will not rest till the PU is reopened,' he said.

IJT PU chapter nazim Hasaan Bin Salman, the son of Jamat-e-Islami (JI) leader Hafiz Salman Butt, said the vice-chancellor had a grudge against Jamiat, adding that the university was closed to punish the students who supported the IJT. He said nothing could be recovered during the operation against Jamiat at the PU hostel. It is pertinent to mention here that academic activities have been suspended at the PU since April 2, 2010 a day after some IJT activist thrashed and injured Prof Dr Iftikhar Hussain Baloch, the chairman of the PU disciplinary committee. The PU Academic Staff Association (PUASA) had announced that the academic activities would not resume at the university until all those nominated in the FIR were arrested.

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Taseer for end to violence on campuses
Lahore: Governor Salman Taseer has said that the automatic dismissal of any student resort to violence against a professor would be warranted, stating that the respect and honour of the teachers was of paramount importance.

He was talking to a delegation of the Islamia University Bahawalpur, headed by Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Bilal A Khan and Bahawalpur Commissioner Mushtaq Ahmad, which called on him at the Governorís House on Tuesday to resolve the ongoing crisis of student violence against the university teachers.

According to a handout, the delegation apprised the governor of the beginning of the problem in June 2009 when Prof Dr Shahid Naveed was beaten by students and an FIR was lodged against 11 of them. The same professor was attacked in September the same year and another FIR was lodged in October 2009. On February 19, 2010, the campus and office of the VC were ransacked by students.

The governor said the issue of on-campus violence and vandalism needed to be resolved practically and not politically. He also recommended counselling for the students involved in violence and requested the MPAs and MNAs to refrain from inciting politicised student violence.

A recommendation was also put forward by the governor for the formation of a committee to specifically tackle the incidents of campus violence.

Meanwhile, Salman Taseer, talking to a USAID delegation, has said that the US should not restrict funding to the public sector institutes but it should also invest in the high quality private universities.

The delegation, headed by Administrator Dr Rajiv Shah and Chief of Staff USAID Islamabad Sean C Carroll, called on Salman Taseer at the Governorís House on Tuesday.

The governor said that a large proportion of funding to Pakistan ended up in the pockets of consultants and contractors in the US. He suggested that the US should invest in universities, as many of students, especially female ones, come from far off cities and did not have a place to stay, adding that the positive message, the US wished to send across Pakistan, could be conveyed to the future leaders of the country. He said that a large proportion of the funding to Pakistan ended up in the pockets of consultants and contractors in the US.

Taseer said that it was for the first time that he saw a real change (in US attitude towards Pakistan).

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PEF free books
Lahore: The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has completed the task of giving free books to partner schools in 22 districts of the province. Textbooks will be supplied to the rest of the seven districts April 20. These books are being supplied from godowns of Project Management Implementation Unit of the provincial government in Guru Mangat. Three books have been conjoined in a jacket to reduce the weight of the books.

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UHS employees protest continues
Lahore: The University of Health Sciences employees continued their protest demonstration in front of the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday, demanding the regularization of grade 1 to 15 employees in compliance with the orders of the Punjab government. They were holding banners inscribed with their demands and raising slogans against the UHS administration for denying them their due right to regularization. The All Pakistan Clerks Association, besides their own demands of raise in salaries, also expressed their solidarity with their colleagues of UHS and blocked The Mall road. The UHS employees announced to continue their protest and hunger strike camp until the fulfilment of their demands. The news

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