GILGIT, May 21: The new vice-chancellor of the Karakuram International University (KIU) Dr Aziz Ali Najam has said that all the decisions taken on or after January 24, 2005 are subject to review and appropriate adjudication. In a recently notified letter Dr Najam has directed that all such matters should be put up to him for scrutiny and review and sought cooperation and assistance from the relevant persons in this review process.

The sources said that the KIU was managed and administered on the ad hoc basis for one and half year during after the resignation of Dr Muhammad Azam Khan in Jan 2004.

They said during this interim period, a host of decisions pertaining to the appointments of staff at various departments had been taken which needed a re-appraisal once a full-fledged VC had assumed the charge of his office.

The sources said that the most interesting decision is related to the former KIU registrar Arshed Mehmud Chaudhry who ousted by the acting vice chancellor Dr Muhammad Saleem on Jan 27, 2005 allegedly on the charges of cheating in the semester exams.

The sources believed that this decision (about former registrar) too would be put to scrutiny and would prove a litmus test for the new VC.

They maintained that the former registrar had filed a petition against his removal in a local court recently.

They said a divisional bench of the Northern Areas Chief Court had directed the KIU to review the case of the ousted registrar who according the court ruling had not been given any chance to clarify his position viz-a-viz the charges leveled against him.