IUB probe body summons 44 students
Bahawalpur, March 14: The Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) management has summoned 44 students of different departments for their alleged involvement in cases of indiscipline and misconduct in connection with Feb 19 violence on its Baghdadul Jadid and Abbasia campuses.
The chairman of IUB committee on indiscipline and misconduct has advertised a joint notice in newspapers directing the students to appear before the committee on the dates mentioned against their names.
These students are facing charges like resorting to firing, violence and creating the law and order situation on Feb 19 on the two IUB campuses, besides torching hostel rooms, hijacking varsity buses and damaging buildings of Khwaja Farid Art Gallery and Museum.
They are also charged with causing a serious damage to the valuable varsity assets amounting to at least Rs3.133 million and ransacking vice-chancellor’s secretariat and office.
The accused students have been asked to appear at the IUB’s chemistry department from March 16 to 19.
Out of the 44 accused students, 33 belong to various engineering departments, seven to economics, two to media studies and one each to English and commerce departments.
The committee will also record statements of two injured students – Juma Khan and Syed Shah Mirul Hasan – of the engineering department in the hospital.
The varsity is expected to be reopened on Monday (tomorrow) after a three-week closure.
However, the engineering college and hostel for engineering students will remain closed till further orders.
Source: Dawn
IUB BCom Date sheet 2010
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
DATE SHEET BACHELOR OF COMMERCE PART-I & II
FIRST ANNUAL EXAMINATION 2010 TO BE HELD IN MARCH/APRIL,2010.
Time 2:00 PM 4.00 PM
Date & Days
March, 2010 Paper Part Subject
25th Thursday BC-301 I Financial Accounting
26th Friday BC-401 II Advanced Accounting
27th Saturday BC-302 I Computer Application in Business
29th Monday BC-402 II Cost Accounting
30th Tuesday BC-303 I Economics
31th Wednesday BC-403 II Business Industrial Law
April 2010
1st Thursday BC-304 I Introduction to Business
3rd Saturday BC-404 II Auditing
5th Monday BC-305 I Money Banking & Finance
6thTuesday BC-405 II Business Communication
8th Thursday BC-306 I Functional English
9th Friday BC-406 II Economics of Pakistan
10th Saturday BC-307 I Business Mathematics & Statistics
12th Monday BC-407 II Business Taxation
13th Tuesday BC-308 I Islamic Studies /Ethics
14th Wednesday BC-408 II Pakistan Studies
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Clash at IUB arrest of ATI men sought
MULTAN, Feb 20: Students of the engineering department of the Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) demanded the arrest of Anjuman Tulaba Islam activists who were responsible for injuring seven students.
Addressing a press conference at the Multan Press Club on Saturday, students Saad Lodhi, Mudassir Yousaf and Zainul Abideen said the university administration was reluctant to take action against ATI activists, including Mian Hasnain, Qadeer, Usman and Salman. They said the people involved in the firing fled when engineering department students were shifting their injured fellows to hospital. They said the inaction on part of the university administration provoked the students who started ransacking the university furniture.
IUB public relations officer Shahzad Khalid said both groups were equally responsible for the incident and an inquiry committee was being instituted to probe the matter.
Source Dawn Sunday, 21 Feb, 2010
Seven IUB students injured in clash
University closed for a week:
BAHAWALPUR, Feb 19: Seven Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) students were injured, four of them seriously, in a clash between two rival groups at Baghdadul Jadid Campus here on Friday. The university has been closed for a week.
Some students of IUB’s engineering department and activists of an organisation (Anjuman-i-Tulba-i-Islam) have frequently clashed with each other during the last few months. Some of their members quarrelled with each other over a trifle in a university bus on Thursday. However, a compromise was effected between them lately.
Members of both the groups had an altercation again on Friday and this time they resorted to trading fire, injuring seven of the students present nearby.
Later, members of one of the groups allegedly set Ali Hall, one of the IUB hostels, on fire, which destroyed around 10 rooms of the boarding facility. The infuriated students later stormed the IUB’s old campus and damaged a university bus and a van and ransacked the office of the vice-chancellor.
A police contingent rushed to the Baghdad Campus and brought the situation under control. The four injured students were taken to Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) where two of them are stated to be in a critical condition.
A large number of students later rushed to the BVH and blocked Circular Road by parking an IUB bus in the middle. They demanded that their rival students, who allegedly resorted to opening fire, be arrested.
IUB PRO Shahzad Khalid said the university had been closed down for a week while the students had been asked to vacate hostels till the opening of the university on Feb 26.
The police have not registered a case and, according to departmental sources, the matter was still being examined.
The protesting students though cleared Circular Road, they later assembled at DIG Chowk and threw traffic out of gear for hours by blocking the road. They also staged a sit-in and demanded that their rivals be arrested immediately.
PROTEST: Locals and relatives of a murder victim protested against the Kotwali police for allegedly releasing the suspects.
The police arrested the suspects wanted in the murder of Latif, alias Bhayya, a week ago. The demonstrators alleged that Kotwali SHO Abid Warraich had released the suspects.
JI: Activists of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) staged a rally from their main office to Farid Gate to condemn the razing the residence of former JI MNA, Haroonur Rashid, in Fata a few days ago.
The participants demanded that the culprits be arrested immediately.
Source: Dawn Saturday, 20 Feb, 2010
Students, guards clash at IUB
BAHAWALPUR, June 2: Several students and security guards sustained injuries when the latter unleashed a baton-charge on mathematic department students who were protesting for the removal of their department’s chairman at Baghdadul Jadid Campus of the Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) here on Tuesday.
The protesting students allegedly thrashed a professor who went there to pacify them.
The students also blocked Bahawalpur-Hasilpur Road for several hours and prevented the shuttle buses from leaving the premises to other campuses and city areas.
The trouble began early morning with boycotting of classes and observing a strike by the students of mathematics department to press for the acceptance of their demand regarding the removal of department chairman Dr. Tahir.
A few days ago, mathematics department students had arranged a function and invited the chairman to attend it. The chairman, however, could not turn up on time and the students bemoaned the late arrival of Dr Tahir’s. This created differences between the students and the chairman and they approached the director students’ affairs (DSA) and urged him to change the department head.
According to the students, the DSA had assured them that their demand would be met. As their demand was not met by Tuesday, they decided observing a strike. They assembled near the main canteen of Baghdad Campus and stopped shuttle buses from leaving the premises for other campuses.
According to eyewitnesses, when the number of protesters increased and they did not allow the university buses to leave the premises, security guards equipped with clubs tried to disperse them.
It is alleged that a lecturer of chemistry department directed the security guards to intervene. Eyewitnesses told Dawn that when security guards thrashed students, including females, the activists of Anjuman-i-Tulba Islam (ATI) also joined the protesters and security guards and several students were injured in the ensuing clash. Three students identified as Shoaib, Zia and Nematullah were taken to Bahawal Victoria Hospital.
In the meantime, science faculty dean Dr. Moazim and DSA Dr. Shammasul Basr also reached there. Dr. Moazim was also allegedly thrashed by some students. The protesters later broke windowpanes and doors of the science faculty and other departments’ classrooms.
A heavy contingent of police rushed to the scene. However, according to sources, the police officials remained silent spectators as the students went on the rampage.
Later, the students blocked Bahawalpur-Hasilpur Road for about three hours. The police, however, made the demonstrators lift the blockade. Later, they also allowed the buses to leave the campus to other campuses and city areas.
Dawn repeatedly tried to take IUB public relation officer’s comment on the incident but his cell phone was found switched off.
DPO Azhar Hameed Khokhar did not attend his cell phone.
Baghdad-ul-Jadid SHO Nasir Ghauri told Dawn that police did not take action against the protesters as the university administration had not approached the police for action against any of them. Sources said that two IUB faculty deans later held in-camera dialogue with the protesters. The deans sought from students time till Wednesday morning so that they could discuss the students’ demands with IUB Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Belal A Khan to solve the matter.
Source: Dawn Wednesday, 03 Jun, 2009
