Pakistan: ADMISSION POLICY CENSURED

A senior leader of the National Party, Mr. Rehmat Baloch, a former MPA, has censured the admission policy of the IT University of Management Sciences claiming that it was designed to discriminate Baloch and bar Baloch students from getting admission in the IT University. Earlier, the Baloch students, members of the Provincial Assembly and sitting Ministers registered their protest over the admission policy discriminating the Baloch students and Baloch area on the false pretext of merit. The University authorities and their bosses had framed their own policy confining the admission to the students from Quetta only barring the students from more backward regions of Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern Balochistan. The University was established in the name of Balochistan and it backwardness and the Government is providing funds on this basis to provide better and quality education to the students from more backward regions. However, the IT University authorities and their bosses are providing admission to students from Quetta alone denying the traditional merit of District Quota. The Government should stop all funds to the IT University until it defended the legitimate interests of Baloch students from remote corners of Balochistan providing them equal chances to get quality education. The best policy is to implement the district quota system which the Provincial Government is implementing in all spheres of human activities and recruitment of public servants. We support the demand of the Baloch students that the sitting Vice Chancellor should be sacked immediately for his hate-Baloch policies and a more competent IT expert should be appointed as the new Vice Chancellor. The Chief Minister should issue an order to the IT University to admit students from all the 30 districts of Balochistan ending the monopoly of Quetta Mafia on the University.