HYDERABAD, April 18: The University of Sindh tops the list of public universities in the province having largest number of retired officers where 12 retired officers are serving followed by the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology and Karachi University where 10 and eight retired officers, respectively, were working, according to the Federation of All-Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association.

The list, which had reportedly been submitted to the Sindh government by the Sindh chapter of the federation and a copy of which was obtained by Dawn on Friday said that no less than 65 retired professors and officers were working in nine public universities of the province including vice-chancellors, pro-vice chancellors and registrars.

The number of retired vice-chancellors is six, pro-vice-chancellors five and registrars four in Sindh and the federation has been demanding their removal.

According to break-up, seven retired offices are serving in Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, four each in Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur and Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro, two each in NED University Karachi and Quaid-i-Awam University Nawabshah and one in Dow Medical University Karachi.

The federation demands that all the retired vice-chancellors and officials should be removed and in-service senior professors and officials whose promotions had been withheld should be appointed in their place.

SAB: The high drama staged by vested interests in the Sindhi Adabi Board, which had brought the routine work of the board to a grinding halt, seems to have reached its logical end with the removal of the board’s secretary, Mr Aijaz Mangi.

Senior Sindh minister Pir Mazharul Haq who paid a brief visit to the board late on Thursday evening was reported to have asked the deputy secretary of the board (finance), Mr Allah Ditto Vighio, to take over the charge of secretary, said the sources. He had also ordered an inquiry into the alleged embezzlement of funds, said the sources.