KU acting vice-chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Iraqi inaugurated a tuck shop of short-heighted people on Friday. PHOTO: COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
He assured support to the women studies centre for similar initiatives in the future.
Short-heighted people face a lot of difficulty in finding employment, transport and marriage opportunities, he said during his address at the inauguration ceremony.
"They must not be a victim of inferiority complex," said Dr Iraqi, adding that the government must provide employment opportunities to such people so that they can also play a positive role in the society.
Such tuck shops by dwarfs will be opened in other departments of the varsity as well that do not point them out in public, which makes them feel inferior, said Centre of Excellence for Women Studies director Prof Dr Nasreen Aslam Shah, adding that people make fun of short-heighted people, which is a highly inhumane practice.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2016.
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