FG College for Women affidavits condition
Students resent affidavit condition
Peshawar, Aug 27: Girl students seeking admission to FG
College for Women, Peshawar Cantt, have asked its administration to
exempt them from submitting affidavits about non-participation in
political activities during their stay at the college. The students
seeking admission to the college are required to submit affidavits and
Cantonment Residency Certificate. The first is meant for assuring the
college that a student would not take part in politics, the second is
produced to prove that a student who is seeking admission lives in the
Cantonment limits. Wishing anonymity a student of the college said that she had submitted affidavit at the time of getting
admission to first year, adding that she was again asked to submit fresh
affidavit for seeking admission to third year in her college. "The
condition should be waived off to prevent girl students from visiting
courts for getting affidavits," he said. Principal of the FG College for
Women Rubina Saeed, when contacted, said the college was meant for the
children of army personnel but it had allocated a specific quota for the
children of civilians living in the Cantonment. The students living
in the Cantonment area, she said, were required to produce cantonment
residency certificate for taking admission to the college. She, however,
said that the students who had studied at the college for first and
second year were not required to submit Cantonment Residence Certificate
for seeking admission to 3rd year. About the submission of the
affidavits, she added it was one of the requirements for seeking
admission to the college. "The objective behind this practice is to make
the students abide by rules notified in the prospectus," she clarified.
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No pay raise for employees of universities
Peshawar: The public sector universities on Thursday decided not to increase the
pay and allowances of the employees by 50 per cent due to paucity of
funds. The decision was taken at a meeting of the vice-chancellors of
the public sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani presided over the meeting. It was
decided that the universities should have a three-pronged approach: the
universities must undertake economy measures and cut costs;
universities and the chancellor will engage actively with donors to fund
the deficit and universities must cut down the huge subsidies being
paid for many services to faculty and students. Earlier, the
vice-chancellors informed the governor, who is also the chancellor of
the universities, regarding the financial constraints being faced by
them. The news
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UoP to impart training in disaster management
Peshawar: The Centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management
(CDPM), University of Peshawar, will train selected students of
postgraduate diploma in disaster preparedness and management. The
students will work as academic internees and also get field experience
in disaster management.In this regard, the CDPM and Livelihoods
Programme, Inter-cooperation Pakistan (IP), signed a memorandum of
understanding to enhance their existing relationship and to work for
improving local capacity through activities aimed at training and
research in the field of disaster management in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Under the MoU, the IP would provide learning opportunities to students
of the postgraduate diploma. CDPM director Prof. Amir Nawaz Khan and
IP's livelihoods programme team leader Shabir Hussain signed the MoU on
Thursday in the presence of IP director Pierre Yves Suter and UoP vice
chancellor Prof. Azmat Hayat Khan, says a press release.
Speaking on the occasion, the VC said that since October 2005 Pakistan
had been hit by several disasters and the recent floods had affected all
sections of the society in the country. Prof. Hayat said that
had there been efficient disaster preparedness and management system in
place the loss of life and property would have been far less.
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Teachers denied salary for 8 months
Mirpurkhas: Dozens of primary teachers, including women, held a demonstration outside the local press
club here on Wednesday. They also blocked the Hyderabad road. They were protesting against non-payment of their salaries for the last eight months. They said they were appointed in January 2010 after clearing the test, but their salaries were stopped after eight months. They demanded of the Sindh chief minister to take notice of the matter and ensure payment of their salaries. Dawn
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