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| August 28, 2005 | Sunday | Rajab 22, 1426 |
Varsity to send 40 teachers abroad for PhD research
QUETTA, Aug 27: Vice-Chancellor, Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences (BUITNS), Dr M Abbas Chaudhry, has said that the Higher Education Commission would provide Rs131 million for construction of a students hostel and other works.
He told a news conference at the press club here on Saturday that 40 university teachers would be sent for PhD research to universities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
He said that each of those teachers would get a scholarship of Rs4 million to be granted by the HEC.
He said that four new programme would be introduced in the university from the next session and added that Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Liberal Arts courses had been extended from two to four years.
The vice-chancellor claimed that university admissions were purely on the basis of merit and said that apart from local students, those from Punjab, Sindh, the NWFP and Azad Kashmir could also apply for the admissions.
He said that last date for submission of admission forms was August 31 and added that so far the university administration had received 800 admission forms and their number might go up to 1,000 till the last date.
Dr Chaudhry rejected the charge that local youth had been denied admission or employment in the university and said that 90 per cent of its students and over 90 per cent of the staffers belonged to Balochistan.
He claimed that some of the recruitment had been made from outside the province ‘due to non-availability of qualified local youths’.
RELEASE DEMANDED: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal and Baloch Students Organization (United) have demanded the release of their political activists.
The BNP-M and BSO organized separate demonstrations in front of the press club on Saturday to protest against the government and intelligence agencies for torturing the Baloch youth in prisons.
BNP-M leader Habib Jalib Baloch and BSO leader Dr Naseem Baloch criticized the government for keeping the political activists in illegal confinement.
They alleged that hundreds of the Baloch youths were detained for the last four years without any justification and said that Dr Allah Nazar and his two colleagues were arrested in Karachi on March 24, but were still behind bars under a fake case.
They said that Ali Asghar Bungulzai, whose four children were on token hunger strike for the last few weeks, was arrested four years back by the Inter Services Intelligence.
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