LAHORE : Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar has taken suo motunotice on the appointment of the vice-chancellor of Lahore College forWomen University.

The chief justice has summoned Punjab Higher Education Minister Raza AliGillani to the Lahore registry today.

The suo motu notice has been taken on reports that LCWU VC Dr Uzma Quraishiwas appointed without merit.

On Saturday, a two-member bench of the apex court, while hearing a suo motucase on illegal appointments of vice-chancellors, ordered the Punjabgovernment to immediately appoint a new VC at Punjab University.

The court had earlier in the day ordered the suspension of University ofPunjab VC Dr Zakaria Zakar.

The court also ordered that university’s senior-most professor should beappointed to serve as interim vice-chancellor.

Also during the court proceedings, the chief justice had questioned onwhose authority the university agreed to give 80 kanals of land to thegovernment.

Chief Justice Nisar also questioned why hasn’t a continuous vice-chancellorbeen appointed at the university in the last 2.5 years. “Please inform uswho is responsible for this,” he remarked.

It has been proven that the government does not appoint a continuousvice-chancellor so that it could enforce its legal and illegal requests, heobserved further.

Dr Zakar was appointed the temporary VC in January this year after ZaffarMueen Nasar resigned citing “unavoidable circumstances”. It was reportedthat Nasar had resisted the government’s directions to transfer the land.

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