SHC moved against inviting ‘controversial personalities’ to academic institutions

Karachi
A petition was filed in the Sindh High Court on Saturday seeking a ban on inviting controversial personalities to academic institutions.
The petitioner, Rana Faizul Hasan, submitted in the petition that Karachi University students invited supermodel Ayyani Ali, facing charges of money laundering, to the university’s Public Administration Department as chief guest for inaugurating a business venture of students.
He submitted that the university administration remained unaware about the event and later issued show-cause notices to students for inviting a controversial personality to their programme and sought explanation from the head of the public administration department.
He said controversial personalities should not be allowed to address the students at education institutions so that feelings of citizens were not hurt.
He also asked the court to call a report from the Karachi University administration explaining what action was taken against the officials concerned for allowing Ayyan Ali to address the students on campus.
News Desk adds: The event itself had passed by without any incident as the students and faculty members accorded the guest a warm welcome and participated fully in a Q&A session. The model, who has been subjected to intense and often excessive media scrutiny following her March arrest in a money laundering case, took the opportunity to advocate the need for people to give facts more importance than unfounded rumours.
“We all must base our opinions on actual facts, rather than blindly following what others are saying,” she said.