KARACHI, Feb 16: The Deputy Chairman of Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology and member of its senate, Jamiluddin Aali, has said the majority of nominated members of the Urdu University Senate are scholars, intellectuals, writers, professors and most of them belong to the teacher community.

“The establishment of the Urdu University is part of our campaign for implementation of Urdu as national language of Pakistan under article 251 of the Constitution,” he said talking to PPI here on Sunday.

“We are delighted to have a federal Urdu university, and I want to make it clear that the majority of members nominated to its senate are not bureaucrats,” he said.

He added personally he himself did not agree with several clauses of the Model University Ordinance.

He said according to the Urdu University Ordinance, the President of Pakistan, who was also the Chancellor of the Varsity, had the authority to appoint the vice chancellor and nominate its senate under sections 41-a and 41-b of the ordinance.

“Not a single person nominated member of the Urdu University Senate, including writer-poet Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, writer Bano Qudsiya, Prof Fateh Mohammed Malik, Prof Mohsin Ahsan, Farman Fatehpuri, Dr Tariq Rahman of Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Prof Hasan Raza from the University of Quetta, Dr Shahid Husain, Dr Pirzada Qasim, Dr G. Allana, Jamiluddin Aali and Aftab Ahmed Khan, the President of the Anjuman Taraqi-i-Urdu is a bureaucrat,” he said.

“Of course, the secretary education is a bureaucrat but he is statuary member. Two teachers will also be elected members of the Urdu University Senate,” he said.—PPI