PIERA fails to regulate private instituitions due to lack of clear policy
ISLAMABAD:July 11: However, in its petition filed before the IHC on Wednesday, IPSA Secretary Abdul Waheed contended that PEIRA Academics Member Imtiaz Ali Qureshi and the Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Hamza Shafqat had allegedly committed contempt of that stay order by issuing a notice to a member of the association “just to pressurize and harass the members of the association”.
“The respondent has expressly disobeyed and direction issued by this court, to which they were legally bound to obey strictly and its compliance matter of strict liability, as such they have committed irregularity of serious character and are liable to be imposed drastic procedure and penalty of contempt proceeding,” contend Shireen Imran, the counsel for IPSA.
She further contended that Qureshi and Shafqat had been issued notices by the court in the stay application but they had allegedly ignored those orders.
The petitioner pleaded that the court must take action against the authority as it may deem necessary.
Supplying drugs to students
A man, who used to supply drugs to students of the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has been sentenced by a district and sessions court after he was found guilty of the charges.
Judge Sohail Nasir sentenced Muhammad Tayyab to serve four years and six months in jail. He was slapped with a fine of Rs20,000. In the event Tayyab fails to pay the fine, his sentence will be extended for another six months.
Tayyab, the convict, had been arrested from outside Islamabad’s largest university in November 2018. The Secretariat Police had recovered 1.24 kilogrammes of heroin from him. The Express Tribune, July 11th, 2019.
