ISLAMABAD: Former Senate Chairman and Pakistan People’s Party leader Mian Raza Rabbani advised to withdraw the bill related to the appointment of bureaucrats as vice-chancellors of public sector universities in Sindh.

In his statement, Raza Rabbani said that non-PhD candidates and bureaucrats were allowed to become vice chancellors and added that this amendment will pave the way for appointing non-experts to the post of VC.

Raza Rabbani said that the amendment in the Sindh Universities and Institutes Laws Act should be withdrawn immediately. He said universities are independent and run under their respective laws, such appointments will affect this independence.

The former chairman of the senate said that such appointments will affect the academic quality and academic freedom of the universities. He advised the Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to withdraw this amendment.

It should be noted that there is a boycott of the teaching process in various universities against the decision to make bureaucrats as vice chancellors in Sindh.

The academic activities has suspended across the Sindh province on appeal of the Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association Sindh (FAPWASA) against the decision to appoint bureaucrats as vice-chancellors.

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On the other hand, more than 17 universities of Sindh, including the University of Karachi, have been boycotting the teaching process since January 16.

The FAPWASA representatives demanded that the proposed amendments to the Universities Act for the appointment of Vice-Chancellors be withdrawn.