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Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran appointed new PU VC
LAHORE, Jan 04, 2008: Governor Lt Gen (r) Khalid
Maqbool on Thursday appointed Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran new vice chancellor (VC) of
the Punjab University (PU) on the Search Committee's (SC) recommendations.
The appointment of PU VC had become one of the burning issues on the
campus, as the post was vacant since September 2007 after Lt Gen (r) Arshad
Mehmood, was not granted extension. Arshad was appointed in 1999 as PU VC. Prof
Dr Arif Butt, the Institute of Chemical Engineering director, had been serving
as the acting VC.
The Search Committee has submitted three names (Prof
Arif Butt (acting VC), Dr Mujahid Kamran and PU registrar Prof Dr Naeem Khan) to
the governor for the VC slot. The Search Committee had advertised the post in
September 2007 for only PhD degree holders. The committee had received about 50
applications. After conducting interviews, the committee had forwarded three
names to governor.
The political groups on the campus were at
loggerheads over appointment a VC from their groups. The Federation of All
Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) had been trying to
appoint Dr Arif Butt – allegedly pro-Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT). The association
had also opposed the appointment of former army generals and outsiders as VC.
The Teachers Front, another group in PU comprising senior teachers had
been campaigning for Dr Mujahid Kamran – Physics Department chairman.
The
governor announced Prof Kamran's appointment at the Institute of Bio-Chemistry
and Biotechnology auditorium, during a special visit to PU. Dr Mujahid said he
would try to bring PU among the world's best universities.
Profile of Dr
Mujahid Kamran: Dr Kamran has a long and distinguished association with the PU.
He joined the PU Physics Department, as lecturer in 1972, became an assistant
professor in 1982 and associate professor in 1986 and professor in 1988. He has
won the Abdus Salam Prize (1985), the National Book Council Award in 1986 and
the Presidential Pride of Performance Award in 1999. He was the Physics
Department chairman from 1995 to 2001 and Faculty of Sciences dean from 2004 to
2007.
At the time of his appointment as the PU VC he was serving as
Physics Department chairman. He authored sixty research papers and five books.
His book on the lives and works of founding fathers of modern physics has won
the National Book Foundation Award in 1997. A former Senior Fulbright Fellow, he
has long association with the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste, Italy. He did his matriculation from Sir Syed School (1965),
FSc (1967) and BSc (1969) from Gordon College, Rawalpindi. He did his MSc from
Punjab University (1971) and did his PhD in Theoretical Physics from University
of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1979. He has won merit scholarships from 1965-71.
Being a dedicated teacher, he has sent about 35 students for higher studies on
scholarships to the US and Europe.
New PU VC reappoints sacked registrar
The newly appointed vice chancellor of the Punjab University (PU) has
reappointed PU former Registrar Prof Dr Muhammad Naeem Khan on
Thursday.
Earlier, PU Acting vice chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Arif Butt,
in an unexpected move, relived him of duties on Tuesday.
It is learnt
that Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, who was assigned additional duties of PU
registrar by the acting vice chancellor has been resigned from the post of
registrar soon after the appointment of the new Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid
Kamran of the PU on the pretext that owing to research work and academic
activities in his department he could not perform additional duties of
registrar.
The abrupt decisions by the PU high-ups created confusion
among the faculty members, staff and students alike.
A senior PU
professor, on condition of anonymity, said the unexpected decisions had not only
puzzled the whole teaching, non-teaching staff and students but had also raised
serious questions regarding these developments.
He added it was
prevailing perception among faculty members that as if the acting VC and the new
VC are lobbying for each other by appointing their favourite as the registrar.
It is pertinent to mention here that in an unexpected move, Acting VC Dr
Arif Butt had replaced the university registrar, Prof Dr Muhammad Naeem Khan,
with Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, who is already working as a Director of
Institute of Administrative Sciences (IAS) and is also Dean Faculty of Economics
and Management Sciences.
VC Dr Mujahid Kamran while accepting
resignation of Dr Jadoon on Thursday has reappointed Prof Dr Naeem Khan as PU
Registrar. Dr Mujahid Kamran was not available for comments. The News
Your Comments
"Prof. Dr. Mujahid Kamran is also involved in serious forgeries like tempering and producing fake documents to gain illegal benefits. He illegally promote his wife Prof. Dr. Najma Najam to Professor Meritorious despite of the fact that she is still in active service (Visit University of the Punjab website). Using political influence is a common negativity of this gang. There were some serious objections upon his selection raised by the chancellors office. When Mujahid Kamran's wife became the VC of the Women University he stayed in the Girls Hostel for more than 2-years. Filially on the protest, he was removed from the Girls hostel after the student strike in the times of Gen Arshad."
Name: TK Hamid
Email: Tkhamid@yahoo.com
City, Country: lahore, Pakistan
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| Education News | | Updated: 24 May, 2012 |
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