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PU will not succumb to IJT | BSc engg revised date sheet
'Punjab University will not succumb to IJT in future'
Lahore, May 15, 2008: Punjab University (PU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Mujahid
Kamran says the university will not be closed again as "the PU administration
cannot be cowed down by protest demonstrations as well as other pressure
tactics".
Prof Kamran said the deans committee had decided that the university would not be closed again and instead
the teachers would handle the situation.
The PU was closed on Monday for
four days to, what the administration says, avert clashes between police and the
Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT). The radical student faction of the Jamaat-i-Islami
was stopped from holding a book fair on New Campus.
But PU Spokesman Dr
Mujahid Mansoori told a press conference the PU would only be closed again, if
the IJT managed to gather a large number of activists. He, however, added the
IJT would not be able to gather its activists in such a large number.
Dr
Mansoori said the administration had to close the university because IJT
activists could clash with the police deployed on the campus. He said the Jamiat
activists were residing in university hostels as well as in different city
colleges to clash with the university administration as well as
police.
"Suspending academic activity for four days was not an
administrative failure but an action to avert a serious situation," he
said.
The PU spokesman said the university had held a Deans' Committee
meeting on Wednesday and had called a meeting of all deans, constituent
colleges' principals, institutes' directors, department's chairpersons and
professors on Thursday (today).
"Any decision regarding the future course
of action will be taken in consultation with all senior faculty members," he
added.
Dr Mansoori said the administration had not consulted the Academic
Staff Association over the closure of the university because, in his opinion,
its executive body was dominated by IJT's supporters.
Dr Mansoori also
told reporters the three out of four IJT activists, who were on the forefront to
organise the controversial book fair were not university's bonafide students but
"external elements". Therefore, they had no legal or moral reason to hold the
book fair in a national institution without valid permission from the varsity
administration. Dawn
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Tensions simmer as PU and IJT lock horns over book fair
Lahore: The Punjab University (PU) administration has foiled the
Islami Jamiat Talaba's (IJT) plan to hold a three-day book fair from May 13,
leading to tension on the campus as the student organisation has pledged to hold
the fair another day while the administration says it will thwart any such plan.
PU Spokesman Dr Mujahid Mansoori said at a press conference on Wednesday that
the PU might be closed again if the tension prevailed. He also said that the PU
IJT nazim was not a student of the university and that the university would not
let anyone outsider conduct any activity on the PU campus. The PU administration
closed the university on May 12 for four days to stop the IJT from holding the
book fair and called police on campus to help the administration against the
IJT. The PU administration also vacated its hostels of male students and planned
an operation against illegal occupants at the hostels. PU IJT Nazim Rana Zahid
said on Wednesday that he was a student of the PU's Statistics
Department and had the right to hold the fair.
IJT rally: About 300 IJT
activists took out a rally on The Mall on Wednesday while the PU administration
held a press conference at the Lahore Press Club. The IJT workers carried books
on wheelbarrows and held books and pens in their hands to protest against the PU
administration. They carried banners and chanted slogans like "Kitabon per
pabandi na manzoor" (restriction on books not acceptable). The rally started
from PU Old Campus and concluded in front of the Punjab Assembly where the
police stopped them from proceeding. Addressing the rally, IJT Punjab Nazim
Sohaib Ammar termed it a 'tragedy' that the PU had called in police to stop a
book fair. IJT Lahore Nazim Abdul Basit said, "The governor and the PU
administration want students to carry guns and if the administration will use
force to stop the students, they (students) will be more aggressive in demanding
their rights."
PU press conference: PU Spokesman Dr Mansoori said the PU
IJT nazim and leading IJT activists Sabir Shah and Bilal were not enrolled in
any department of the PU. PU Statistics Department Chairman Dr Shahid Kamal was
also present at the press conference and confirmed that no student with the name
of Rana Zahid was enrolled in his department. Daily Times
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Date sheet of BSc engineering revised
Lahore: Punjab University Examination Department has issued the revised date
sheet of practical examination of BSc (Engineering), Final Professional, 1st
Annual Examination 2005. According to the revised schedule, the exam will now
commence from May 19 instead of May 12 and will conclude on June 16. A
notification has been issued in this regard. Detailed date sheets are available
at PU website www.pu.edu.pk. F.P Report
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PU, LMU to collaborate in banking
Lahore: The Punjab University (PU) and the London Metropolitan
University (LMU) have decided to work together in the areas of banking and
finance. According to a press release issued by the PU on Wednesday, the
decision was taken at a meeting between a three-member delegation of the London
Metropolitan University and Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Mujahid
Kamran at his office on Wednesday. The delegates were LMU International
Development Director Mark Bickerton, Regional Director (Pakistan) Faisal Hassan
and Manager Operation (Pakistan) Seema Khan. PU External Linkages Director Prof
Najma Najam and Registrar Prof Muhammad Naeem Khan were also present. Kamran
said the PU wanted to have collaboration with other universities in several
avenues including financial marketing, economics modeling and sciences
especially nutrition and sociology. Mujahid said faculty exchange programmes
were necessary for research projects. Daily Times
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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