HYDERABAD, March 13: The Nazareth Girls’ College Action Committee demanded on Thursday cancellation of the appointment of Prof Aftab Ehsan Qureshi as the principal of the college for the second time.

The committee leaders Prof Kashmir Soomro, Prof Amina Imtiaz and Ms Nasira Dilshad Qureshi said at a news conference at the press club that Ms Qureshi’s appointment had created resentment among senior professors many of whom had preferred to get transferred. She never submitted the ACRs and EPRs of teachers to the education director after her first appointment as principal in 2005 and kept the reports with her to blackmail teachers, they alleged.

She was appointed during the period when the government had imposed ban on jobs in public institutions and she was again appointed on contract as principal when the Election Commission of Pakistan had banned postings and transfers of all the government servants, they said.

They said that during the intervening period, she was appointed as professor on contract basis in Zubaida Girls College but never took any class even for a single day during four months of her appointment.

Later she was again thrust on the Nazareth College as principal although the new principal Prof Naseem Patoli had already taken over the principal’s charge, they said.

They appealed to the governor of Sindh, chief minister, chief secretary and secretary of education to cancel Ms Qureshi’s appointment and demanded that an in-service senior professor should be appointed in her place.

The fact that Ms Patoli had already taken over as principal when Ms Qureshi was appointed and that her appointment orders had not yet been withdrawn, had created a lot of confusion among the college staff, they said.

They said that no less than 5,000 female students were studying in this well reputed college. Its students had always earned positions in the BISE examinations, they said.

They said that all the government officials, higher bureaucracy and educational experts had to retire at the age of 60 in accordance with government rules but Ms Qureshi appeared to have sort of risen above the rules.