QAU faculty continues protest

ISLAMABAD: Academic Staff Association (ASA) of Quaid-i-Azam University staged a sit-in at the main entrance of the university known as Bab-ul-Quaid on Friday on the second consecutive day.

An overwhelming number of faculty members participated in the sit-in. The faculty has shown its deepest reservation over what it calls the incompetence of the university’s Vice-Chancellor Dr Javed Ashraf.

Giving an outline of his incompetence, ASA President Dr Syed Aqeel Bukhari said that the faculty has won research projects worth millions of rupees whereas the Vice Chancellor has miserably failed to initiate these projects.

In the unimpressive tenure of 3.5 years, apart from maladministration and wretched governance, the incumbent VC has blatantly failed to even obtain recognition/accreditation for its leading programmes of law and pharmacy, he said.

The School of Management Sciences is also at its last breaths given uncertainty over its recognition as well, he added. The VC will not be further allowed to amass disrepute for the University, and the faculty of QAU will take this issue to the task.