MULTAN, May 6: The academic council of the Nishtar Medical College has reportedly opposed registration of college students with the University of Health Sciences.

The UHS controller of examinations, Dr Aftab Mohsin, and his assistant, Shakir Ahmad, were in Multan on Tuesday to register all Nishtar students with the university.

The college board of governors had decided to affiliate the institute for future examinations with the UHS instead of the Bahauddin Zakariya University. Admissions to the first year were completed under the affiliation with the UHS.

However, the students and the local chapter of the Pakistan Medical Association were opposed to this affiliation. Therefore, hundreds of students staged a protest rally on Tuesday on the arrival of the UHS controller.

Meanwhile, the PMA sent a resolution to the college’s academic council urging it to take back its decision of affiliation with the UHS. A delegation of PMA led by its Punjab president, Dr Syed Mohammed Ali, also met the UHS controller and conveyed their apprehensions to him.

Later on, the academic council recommended that the students except those studying in the first year should not be registered with the UHS. The UHS controller, therefore, had to leave for Lahore without success.

Controller Dr Aftab Mohsin is said to be the son-in-law of Dr Hayat Zafar, the president of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council and chairman of the Nishtar Medical College and Hospital board of governors.