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| December 28, 2005 | Wednesday | Ziqa’ad 25, 1426 |
Private law college told to get PU affiliation
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has asked a Pindi-based private law college to get affiliation with Punjab University as the council has not recognised the college. The Al-Mizan Law College has applied for affiliation with Wafaqi Urdu University for Arts, Science & Technology, Karachi as one of its institutions. The university has referred the case to PBC.
However, the PBC has rejected the application and has officially informed both Urdu University and law college about the decision, said a press release issued by the council on Tuesday.
The PBC’s committee on legal education observed that it had failed to understand that the university, instead of concentrating on its educational activities in Karachi, wanted to extend its facility, especially regarding legal education, to Rawalpindi, beyond its territorial jurisdictions. The university was established as a result of merger of federal government urdu colleges in Karachi.
In a letter addressed to the registrar of Urdu university and principal Al-Mizan law, college, the committee expressed that it might consider the possibility of recognizing the urdu university for imparting legal education if that was limited to its law department at Karachi.
“It would, however, be difficult for the Pakistan Bar Council to swallow giving a blank power to the university for affiliating law colleges anywhere in the country,” said the statement.
The committee also noted with grave concern that despite the decision of the PBC duly communicated to the university and the Al-Mizan law college, vide letter dated 29-07- 05, the college was continuing offering admission to new law classes; LL.B. (Part-I) as per its advertisements appeared in the press in September this year.
The committee also observed that it had not been properly apprised about the points as to when the Al-Mizan law college, in fact, was established and started functioning.
And whether the conditions imposed by the university while giving it provisional recognition vide letter dated 29-08-2003 have been fulfilled and when the principal seat of the university at Islamabad was established. Because, as primarily the university consists of Federal Government Urdu Colleges in Karachi.
It also noted that the law department of the university existed only in Karachi and not in Islamabad.
It further observed that it would be better if the Al-Mizan Law College get affiliated with the Punjab university within whose territorial jurisdiction it fell.
“After thorough consideration, the committee is not inclined to review its earlier decision dated April 16, 2005 and stresses that unless the Federal university de-affiliates the Al-Mizan Law College, Rawalpindi, which falls outside its territorial jurisdiction, the matter of its recognition cannot be further processed,” the statement said.
The committee, however, observed that it might consider the possibility of recognizing the Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology if it specifically undertook that it would contain its activities of imparting legal education only upto its law department at Karachi and no other Law college/institution opened anywhere else, would be affiliated.
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