Punjab University academic boycott issue
PUASA, VC in disagreement
Lahore, Apr 16: Though divided, the Punjab University Academic Staff
Association executive council has bowed to its general body decision to
continue complete academic boycott, while PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr
Mujahid Kamran has in a strange move announced that the varsity will
reopen for academic activity on Monday. This announcement has
reportedly brought Prof Kamran into direct confrontation with the PUASA
general body that comprises all faculty members of the university. It
would also create problems when the students would return for their
classes, but the teachers would be on their strike. The PUASA's
academic strike has entered the 15th consecutive day on Friday (today).
A senior PUASA leader said that most varsity teachers had also
gone out of the city knowing that the general body had decided complete
academic boycott at least till Monday, when the general body would meet
again. The general body had decided in its meeting on
Wednesday that the boycott would continue to pressure the government
and police to arrest all nominated accused who had thrashed PU
Discipline Committee chairman and College of Earth and Environmental
Sciences principal Prof Dr Iftikhar Husain Baloch with batons and left
him bleeding with severe head injury. Considering the academic
loss of such a huge student body, a number of faculty members were of
the view that the academic strike should go into the second phase of
protest minus academic boycott. However, they could not prevail and the general body decided that the academic boycott would continue. Meanwhile,
the PUASA executive council held its second emergency meeting on
Thursday to discuss and weigh an option whether an emergent PUASA
general body meeting could be called on Friday (today) or not. Finally,
it was decided that the general body meeting would be held on Monday,
as decided, because any other decision might result in a reaction. It
is learnt that the pressure was mounting on the varsity administration
to resume academic activity because over 30,000 on campus students were
missing their semester classes as well as other activities, including
semester examinations. In this scenario, PU VC Prof Kamran
gave a statement to private news channels that the university would
resume academic activity on Monday. PUASA executive council
members, however, feel that the VC had given the statement on his own
and had come into direct confrontation with the PUASA general body. A senior PUASA leader also came up with an argument that the university was never closed officially. Dawn
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PU MBBS exam from 29th
Lahore: The Punjab University (PU) Examinations Department has issued a
notification regarding commencement of MBBS, second professional,
supplementary examination 2009. The exam will commence from April 29,
2010. Meanwhile, PU Examinations Department has issued the schedule for
submission of admission forms for MEd (Visual Impairment), 2nd annual
examination 2008 (Session 2007-2008) and annual examination 2009
(Session 2008-2009). According to the schedule, the last date for
submission of admission forms with single fee is 19-04-2010 while the
forms can be submitted with double fee till 22-04-2010. The exam will
commence from May 6, 2010.
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PU meeting
Lahore: An important general body meeting of the Punjab
University Academic Staff Association (PUASA) is scheduled to be held
on April 19 which will decide about reopening of the university. The news
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Indian media personnel at PU
Lahore: A delegation of Indian media persons visited Punjab University
(PU) on Thursday. During their meeting with the PU vice chancellor and
several university professors, the delegates discussed how to purge
both the countries of the issues that had given birth to hostility
between their citizens. They also exchanged their views on how they –
the media and educationists – could play an instrumental role in
reducing friction between both countries.
Both parties agreed that people in India and Pakistan were keen to
forget their differences and live with mutual respect. They appealed to
the governments to relax visa rules to encourage healthy cross-border
interaction, adding that the media of both countries should play their
part in bridging this gap. The Indian delegates claimed that
the West was using the two countries as pawns against each other for
its own objectives. The delegates and professors said that the problems
they had pointed out should be removed so that both countries could
maintain and develop their strategic position in South Asia. They also
said that the water conflict should be settled and recommended joint
storage of water by both countries. Daily times
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363 cheats caught in Matric exams
Lahore: A total of 363 cases of cheating were detected in
Matriculation Annual Examinations 2010 conducted, simultaneously, by
eight boards of intermediate and secondary education across the
province. Besides this, 30 cases of impersonation were detected. Data
obtained revealed that Faisalabad BISE topped the list of
cheaters as the board registered 117 unfair means cases (UMCs). As
per the break-up, a total of 144 UMCs were detected in SSC (Composite)
Annual Exam held from 13 March 2010 to 29 March 2010 while the number
of such cases in SSC (Class-9th) Annual Exam held from 30 March 2010 to
13 April 2010 was 219. The board-wise UMCs detected during SSC
(Composite) Annual Examination 2010 were 38 for BISE Faisalabad, 28 in
Multan, 23 in Bahawalpur, 19 in Lahore, 14 in Gujranwala, eight in
Rawalpindi, eight in Sargodha and six in Dera Ghazi Khan. UMCs
detected during SSC (Class-9th) Annual Examination 2010 were 79 for
Faisalabad BISE, 34 in Gujranwala, 30 in Bahawalpur, 29 in Multan, 17
in Rawalpindi, 16 in Lahore, seven in Dera Ghazi Khan and seven in
Rawalpindi. The board-wise cases of impersonation in SSC
(Composite) Annual Examination 2010 are five for BISE DG Khan, four in
Bahawalpur, three in Gujranwala, two in Faisalabad and two in Lahore
while no such case was detected in Multan, Rawalpindi and Sargodha.
Cases of impersonation for SSC (Class-9th) Annual Examination 2010 were
five for Multan BISE, four in Gujranwala, two in Faisalabad, two in
Lahore and one in Rawalpindi while no case was detected at Sargodha, DG
Khan and Bahawalpur boards. Like previous years, the Punjab
government had set up an examination monitoring cell at the Punjab
Higher Education Department which coordinated with all eight BISEs and
reported each incident to the Punjab chief minister. A senior official of the department said the number of UMCs
was quite high as compared to previous years. The number had increased
because of improved vigilance and monitoring system, he added. He said
overall exams were conducted smoothly as no law and order case was
registered with police. The news
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