LAHORE: Punjab University Law College Associate Professor Dr Shazia Qureshi has been appointed principal of the college on a regular basis.

Dr Qureshi, also the wife of PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, was selected as associate professor by the university's Selection Board on April 12, said a PU spokesman.

He said Dr Qureshi is the first woman principal of the college in its 146-year history. Dr Shazia did her LLM from Cambridge University and obtained a PhD from the UK's Lancaster University.

The law college principal's seat was never filled on a regular basis since former principal Dr Dil Muhammad Malik retired in September 2007.

VC Prof Kamran had contracted a second marriage with Dr Qureshi in March 2009 and sources alleged he had kept the principal's post purposely vacant. The college's four assistant professors said the PU had advertised the associate professor's post thrice in 2008, 2011 and 2013.

As the VC announced holding of the Selection Board on the basis of advertisement issued in 2013, the four teachers had moved the Lahore High Court taking a plea that the university should hold Selection Boards in chronological order. However, the court recently dismissed the case on technical grounds. The four teachers have now filed an intra-court appeal.