Islamabad: Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) has observed that the Higher Education Commission (HEC) is not abiding by the requirements of the Acts of various Universities in sending its representatives to statutory bodies.
In the case of Pakistan’s top ranked Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), HEC Chairman Mukhtar Ahmed illegally attended the 167th meeting of the QAU Syndicate, even though he had not been approved as Member of the Syndicate of QAU.
A person formally nominated by the 18 members HEC can attend syndicate meeting of QAU but the Chairman HEC Dr Mukhtar Ahmed was never nominated by the HEC; instead he just walked in with two other employees of HEC and hence attended the meeting illegally without proper authority.
Dr. Mukhtar, who is seeking to help ensure the restoration of the Registrar QAU, against whom charges meriting dismissal from service were established by a Committee of Inquiry, is said to be keen to attend meeting of the new QAU Syndicate. This would be a gross violation of the University Act unless the 18-members HEC duly nominates its Chairman for this new tenure of the Syndicate of QAU.
It is also a matter of concern for FAPUASA that legislation under the 18th Amendment that would see final transfer and dissolution of HEC funding functions as per requirement of the Constitution is not being carried out and that members of the parliamentary committee on the subject are least bothered to fulfill their functions as legislators. HEC interference in day-to-day affairs of other HEIs, including COMSATS, Federal Urdu University, Arid Agriculture (RWP), and obstruction of constitutional mandate vested in provinces is a matter of alarm.
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