Another controversy: Two acres given to syndicate member

KARACHI:

In another controversial move, the Karachi University has decided to give two acres of its land to a non-governmental organisation owned and managed by its syndicate member, Sardar Yasin Malik, who is also going to be awarded an honorary degree in a special convocation at the Governor House on Wednesday (today).

Revealing this, Karachi University Teachers’ Society president Shakeel Farooqi at a press conference distributed a letter from Malik, dated February 17, asking the vice-chancellor to change the site of the allotted land from the north-western part of the campus to a piece of land adjacent to the campus school which had earlier been handed over to Sardar Yasin Malik Professional Development Centre.

Farooqi said despite laying the foundation stone of a school, the organisation has failed to build the school on the two acres allotted on September 26, 2013. He added that instead of building the school, he has demanded that the additional piece of land be shifted adjacent to Sardar Yasin Malik Professional Development Centre. Farooqi criticised the higher authorities of the university and said that it seems like the so-called ‘China-cutting’ has also reached the university. Farooqi claimed that Malik’s demand has reportedly been approved.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16^th, 2016.