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PU Muharram gathering at Hostel 7
Lahore, Jan 20, 2008: The Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT)
said on Friday that it supported the extremists of Swat and Waziristan in their
battle against the government.
The IJT expressed its support at a
gathering arranged to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (AS) at Punjab
University's Hostel No 7.
The IJT said Muslims in Kashmir, Afghanistan,
Iraq and Chechnya were being targeted because they were the true believers. It
denounced the war on terror and the role of the Pakistan Army and government in
killing Islamists and extremists.
Calling the people killed by the
government 'Hussaini', the IJT said the government had revived another Karbala
through its atrocities. It praised the Islamists fighting against the government
and supported. The IJT also sent an official statement of supporting the
extremists to the media after the gathering dispersed.
Political
activities are banned at Punjab University.
PU IJT nazim Atiqur Rehman
said that US president George W Bush was allegedly instructing the
Pakistani government to kill innocent people in North Waziristan and
Swat.
He criticised the war on terror, saying President Pervez Musharraf
was killing innocent Muslims in North Waziristan, Swat and various parts of the
world. He said the government had killed innocent Muslims in the Lal Mosque
incident.
Sources said PU IJT workers arranged several similar gatherings
at PU. They said anti-government and anti-Musharraf speeches were the norm at
the gatherings.
PU spokesman Dr Mujahid Mansoori said the PU kept an eye
on such political activities and would issue a policy on such gatherings right
after Muharram. He said the PU was watching students involved in political
activity on campus and was making a list of them.
He said that
immediately after Muharram a notification would be issued to PU hostels and
departments about not allowing students to hold similar gatherings without the
approval of hostel wardens and department chairmen.
Dr Saeed Ahmed Nagra,
Hall Council chairman, said the PU IJT nazim's statement was worthless, as he
was exploiting Imam Hussain's (AS) sacrifice. He said PU students did not
support extremists, which was proven by the rally they held against the IJT last
month. He said, "We don't want to take action against such gatherings because of
Muharram."
Prof Dr Muhammad Akhtar, Hostel No 7 warden, said he was
unaware of such a gathering in the hostel. Daily Times
PU to collaborate with foreign universities: VC
The Punjab University (PU) is
focusing on the academic collaboration with some foreign universities to raise
its standards of education to international levels, PU vice chancellor (VC) Prof
Dr Mujahid Kamran said on Friday.
A PU press statement said a delegation
of the Geumgang University, Korea, and the University of Vienna, Austria,
comprising Dr Sung Yang Kang, Dr Park, Choi Gi Pyo, Shim Jeakwan, Dr Dosu,
Junglan Bang and Hyunjung Ryoo had called on the VC at the New Campus on
Friday.
Signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the PU and
the Geumgang University of Korea, the University of Vienna of Austria, the PU VC
said the collaboration aimed at providing the students with opportunities to
know more about education and research.
He said the MoU would enhance
mutual cooperation between the students of the universities, and digitisation
and descriptive cataloguing of the PU Library's manuscripts of the Woolner
Collection.
PU registrar Prof Dr Muhammad Naeem Khan, Physics Department
chairman Dr Shaukat Ali, Hall Council chairman Dr Saeed Ahmad Nagra, Students'
advisor Dr Mujahid Ali Mansoori and chief librarian Muhammad Hanif were also
present on the occasion.
VC chairs Admission Committee meeting: The PU VC
chaired a meeting of the Admission Committee on Friday.
The meeting
discussed issues of students' admission, re-admission to the University College
of Pharmacy, the University Law College, the Institute of Communication Studies,
the Institute of Administrative Sciences and the Institute of Business
Administration. The PU registrar, Prof Dr Muhammad Jamshaid, Prof Dr Liaqat Ali,
Prof Dr Mugheesuddin Sheikh, Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, Prof Dr Samar Fatima,
Prof Dr Shahida Hasnain, Prof Dr Saleem Mazhar, Prof Dr Mazhar Moeen, Prof Dr
Khawaja Amjad Saeed, Prof Dr Javed Ahmad, Dr Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Prof Dr Shahid
Kamal and Sami Uzair attended the meeting. Daily Times
PU MSc Maths result
The Punjab
University Examination Department has declared the result of MSc Mathematics
(Semester System), Session 2005-2007. As many as, 123 candidates appeared in the
exam and 103 were declared successful. The detailed result is available at the
varsity website www.pu.edu.pk. The News
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