QAU ASA calls for authorities’ action to address indiscipline at campus

ISLAMABAD: Academic Staff Association (ASA) of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has urgently called for action to address the students’ indiscipline and encroachments in the hostels after Islamabad High Court dismissed a students’ petition seeking summer session and not closing the hostels.

Stipulating that the petition not maintainable, Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro of IHC said that the “impugned action was taken pursuant to a valid resolution of the Syndicate, the competent authority under Section 22(2)(i) of the Quaid-iAzam University Act, 1973.” The decision continued that “the matter pertains to internal administrative and disciplinary affairs of the University, which fall within its autonomous domain.” It said that “no violation of any fundamental right or statutory provision has been demonstrated by the petitioners so as to warrant interference by this Court in the exercise of its constitutional jurisdiction under Article 199 of the Constitution.”

Following the court orders, the QAU hostel’s administration asked all the students to vacate the hostels forthwith completing and failing to comply will lead to “strict disciplinary action.”