MANSEHRA: The Jamaat-i-Islami on Tuesday warned it would move the Peshawar High Court if the University of Haripur didn’t follow merit in the filling of its over 100 vacancies.

“We have come to know that the administration of University of Haripur is trying to make appointments on the basis of nepotism and without fulfilling legal formalities. If such practice doesn’t stop, we will go to the high court against it,” JI district chief Dr Tariq Sherazi told a news conference here. Dr Sherazi said the university administration was employing own men.

“On one hand, the government is taking sincere steps to discard malpractices in appointments but on the other appointments have been made secretary deceive public,” he said. The JI district chief said in 2013 neither the syndicate of the university nor the selection committee was constituted, so how the administration could make over 100 appointments under those circumstances.

Says it will move high court if appointments made without fulfilling legal formalities

He said if appointments were made secretly and those deserving to be appointed were denied jobs, his party would move the Peshawar High Court circuit bench in Abbottabad for justice and expose all those behind irregularities.

BODY EXHUMED: The body of a woman, who was burnt o death earlier this month, was exhumed on Tuesday after her father demanded investigation into death. The woman’s father alleged his daughter was burnt to death by his son-in-law in Balimung area.

Musarrat Bibi, mother of two minor children, died in hospital last week after suffering burns due to a fire which according to her husband erupted after the explosion of the stove. The father of woman, Murad Khan, while registering FIR with police said his son-in-law, Mir Afzal, after developing differences with his wife set her on fire and declared it an accident.

A team of doctors and local magistrate accompanied by police exhumed the body and autopsied it.

Mir Afzal, who was present on the occasion, said he and his family were not involved in the burning incident. The police began investigation after registering a case. The head muharar at police station said after exhumation of body, the police could easily find the reason through medical report.

He said at this stage, it would be premature to say that the husband was behind the death.

Published in Dawn, May 20th, 2015

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