KARACHI, Sept 7: Around 75,000 male and female students will be given admissions, in first year, at 110 colleges of Karachi this year.

Some 70,000 matric and 1,500 A-level students had applied for admission in 110 colleges this year and 90 per cent admission process is said to be completed in Pre-engineering, Home Economics, Computer Science, etc, both for male and female students.

A list of pre-medical students to get admissions would be announced soon, director of colleges, Karachi, Prof Haroon Rasheed, informed.

He said female students had been asked this year to give names of eight colleges located near their homes, where they wished to get admissions.

A total of 24 new colleges, both for male and female students, were set up in the city during the last three years, in view of educational needs of Karachi’s population, which was growing at a rate of 3.1 per cent per annum, he said.

“I appeal to political parties to refrain from using students for their political objectives and agenda, and let them concentrate on their studies,” Prof Rasheed said while speaking at a radio press conference on Sunday.

He said violence in educational institutions had roots in student wings of different political parties and in the ban on student unions for last 15 to 20 years. He said the Rangers had been deployed at Karachi and NED universities in order to check violence.

Prof Rasheed said the existing ban on carrying arms into educational institutions was often violated, which affected academic atmosphere.

Prof Haroon Rasheed, who inspected two private colleges in the city, said he would recommend that the colleges charging high fees should not be affiliated.—PPI