QUETTA, April 13: The chief of Islami Jamiat Tulba Pakistan, Mr Atiqur Rehman, has called upon the government to repeal the University Model Ordinance 2002 and withdraw the increase in the admission fee of the Balochistan University.

He said at a press conference here on Sunday that the Musharraf government had promulgated the ordinance in 2002, but because of stiff resistance from teachers and students it could not be enforced in the Punjab University, Peshawar University and Karachi University. He said that in 2004 former governor of Balochistan Owais Ahmed Ghani promulgated the ordinance in the Balochistan University despite the fact that the Academic Staff Association of the university had stated that if the UMO could not be enforced in Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi why was it being imposed on the Balochistan University.