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BAHAWALPUR, Oct 30: Four out-going students of the Islamia University Engineering College have filed a writ petition with the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court, seeking closure of the college which has not so far been recognized by the Pakistan Engineering Council(PEC).
Admitting the petition, Mr Justice Khalid Alvi directed the university and PEC to submit their replies within 14 days.
The petitioners — engineers Muhammed Jasim, Abdul Karim, Muhammed Majid Aneas and Muhammed Imran — submitted that the college was established in 1999 for B.Sc engineering degree, which was yet to get PEC approval.
Due to the non-recognition of their degrees, they added, they faced unemployment as students of three batches from this college could not get jobs. Now, they added, computer engineering courses were being introduced in the college which was a violation of the PEC act.
STRIKE: APCA members locked the offices of DO (buildings) and observed strike here on Monday.
The striking employees demanded arrest of six persons, including contractors, who had allegedly assaulted an office-bearer Irshad Baloch during the past month. The striking employees would stage a sit-in on Oct 31 here to press for the acceptance of their demand.
Meanwhile, Ahmedpur East TMA employees called off their strike against police on Monday on the assurance of tehsil nazim Makhdum Samiul Hassan Gilani.
The nazim assured the employees that he would take up their demand with higher police authorities to arrest the alleged attackers.
