Re: Ex-brigadier thrashes professor over NRO brawl
Capable relatives of a rector!
Capable relatives of a rector!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
By Umar Cheema
ISLAMABAD: Like Pakistan’s ambassador to Syria, another family circus has been discovered in the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) where the Rector has turned it into a family enterprise, record shows.
He has appointed his daughters, nephews, brothers and daughter’s father-in-law on important positions. The remaining vacant posts have gone to the retired army officers. Some are carrying the tags of professors without fulfilling the criteria of 13-year teaching experience.
Brig. (r) Aziz Ahmad, the rector, who earlier sent his daughter and son-in-law to UK for PhD on NUML scholarship, has also granted employment to Maj. (r) Akhtar, father of his son-in-law in the university’s Peshawar Campus as deputy director.
Lt. Col. (r) Saeed Ahmad, now carrying the tag of professor, is rector’s brother and holds the highest position in the university’s Lahore Campus where he served as director. According to the university’s rules, appointment against an administrative position of BPS-19 requires 13-year teaching experience. Saeed does not have this experience but has grabbed the position.
The rector’s maternal nephew, Azhar Manzoor, is heading the department of management sciences in Lahore’s campus. One of his daughters has already gone abroad on the university’s scholarship. His other daughter, Dr. Amina, is employed as the NUML’s medical officer.
Likewise, the rector’s right hand in the university, director administration Muhammad Yasin, has his two sons inducted on important positions in the NUML. Bashir Ahmad, his elder son, is working as acting director examinations and Nazir Ahmad as deputy director.
Lt. Gen. (r) Tauqir Zia who was army chief’s nominee to look after the NUML’s affair when in the service, had his younger brother, Col. (r) Tanvir Zia, as head of the university’s Karachi campus.
The rector refused to offer any comment when contacted for his version. When pressed to say something, he switched off his phone.
A source close to the rector told this correspondent, on condition of not being named, that ability was the sole criterion in all these appointments. When asked whether the ability was found only in the relatives and not in others in the country, he did not respond.
The culture of nepotism is thriving by the day with stories highlighting the issue. A report regarding the pop & mom company scam involving a dad buying tractors from his daughter and paying the money to her mom, caused ripples in the provincial government which swung into action against the company.
Another sad report disclosing how the country’s ambassador to Syria had inducted his kith and kin in the Pakistan International School in Damascus expelling those already employed, has not moved the authorities who themselves are running the state and parties like family business. The NUML rector’s story is third in the row raising alarms among the academic staff on how the university’s affairs are being run personal whims.
there are tons of cases.