BZU Lahore campus declared illegal

LAHORE – The Punjab Higher Education Department has declared the establishment of Bahauddin Zakariya University Lahore Campus as illegal as the conditional approval regarding establishment of this sun-campus at Lahore has been withdrawn by Syndicate of BZU, Multan.

This was disclosed by Higher Education Punjab Secretary Tariq Mahmood Khan during a meeting held at Civil Secretariat, Lahore to review the dispute arising in this matter in the result of which the Punjab government has sealed the premises of BZU, sub-campus at Lahore.

Special Secretary Higher Education Sohail Shahzad, Additional Secretary (Academic) Ali Bahadur Qazi and other senior officers attended the meeting. Latif Chaudhary, an Australian Pakistani was also present. Chaudhary has lodged a petition in Lahore High Court against the illegitimacy of BZU Lahore Campus as a citizen who had paid lakhs of rupees for admission in this sub-campus.

The HED secretary endorsed the point of view of the petitioner that HED had communicated to the Vice Chancellor BZU Multan through a notification to close down the illegal sub-campus at Lahore as the BZU Syndicate had refused to accord approval for this project and the relevant party had never obtained NOC from Higher Education Commission, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, Pakistan Engineering Council, Pharmacy Council, Pakistan Bar Council and other regulatory bodies in this regard.

The HED had already warned the people at large through publicising twice in the major newspapers that the parents of those students who intend to get admission in BZU Lahore sub-campus should refrain from do so because the degrees awarded by BZU Lahore sub-campus are not recognised by any regulatory body.

Contrary to this, the BZU Lahore sub-campus management did not bother to ensure compliance of the HED public notice. Rather the management continued to offer admissions by deceiving general public and students for minting money.

So the government action to seal the illegal sub-campus of BZU at Lahore was totally justified which will discourage the nefarious designs of the owners of this sub-campus who are responsible to put the future of three thousand students at stake, the secretary concluded.