Transforming IPMR into SIPMR to jeopardise 500 students’ future: JI

Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi leaders on Tuesday warned the Sindh government against transforming the Dow University's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (IPMR) into a separate degree-awarding institute entitled Sindh Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (SIPMR), fearing that the move could jeopardise the future of 500 students.

“If a student had paid a fee for and enrolled in a program of the Dow University, then the student should be awarded a degree and taught by teachers of the same university,” said JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman at a press conference. Affected students and their parents accompanied him. The JI will organise a protest outside the Dow Medical University today against the move.

Instead of establishing new universities and educational institutes, the Sindh government changed the status and name of the IPMR to SIPMR, he said and declared the decision, enforced by a bill, as illogical and based on malafide intentions.