Bhutto varsity registrar’s charge from PIMS doctor withdrawn

Islamabad

While ordering the immediate withdrawal of the additional charge of the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University registrar from Pakistan Medical Institute of Medical Sciences Associate Professor (Paediatric Surgery) Dr Muhammad Amjad Choudhary (BPS-19) over an administrative irregularity, the Capital Administration and Development Division has warned the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University against making such postings on its own.

Dr Choudhary is facing the charge of illegally keeping the university’s funds in a bank account, which is jointly operated by him and his wife.

In a formal communication, a copy of which is available with 'The News', CADD section officer Javed Akbar Shaikh informed SZABMU Vice-Chancellor Dr Javed Akram that in view of serious allegations of maintaining the university’s account in his and wife’s name, which were under scrutiny in the Supreme Court, the CADD approved the immediate withdrawal of the additional charge of the assignment of the varsity’s registrar from Dr Amjad Choudhary so that he might not influence the inquiry pending against him.

The VC was also told to give the additional duty of the registrar’s office to the senior most administrative cadre doctor of PIMS other than administrator Dr Altaf Hussain and that, too, only after taking the CADD on board.

While seeking ‘further necessary action’ on the matter, the CADD official asked the VC to ensure that in future no employee of PIMS except those, who had opted for the university, be given any assignment in the SZABMU without prior approval of the division.

When contacted, VC Dr Akram insisted that the university’s syndicate, top decision-making body, had endorsed the appointment of Dr Choudhary as registrar.

He also said an internal inquiry committee had already cleared Dr Choudhary in the SZABMU account case.  The VC said he would soon call a meeting of the syndicate to discuss the matter.