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  • Three more BZU syndicate members get notices to record statements

    MULTAN: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started recording statements of syndicate members of the Bahauddin Zakariya University over the alleged illegalities and the violation of rules for the establishment of a university’s sub-campus in Lahore...

    In December 2013, the then provincial education minister Rana Mashhood had informed Punjab Assembly members in a question-hour session that the provincial government was going...

  • Case against BZU professor for attacking journalist

    MULTAN: Police registered a case on Saturday against a professor of Bahauddin Zakariya University and his six unidentified accomplices for his alleged involvement in an attack on a journalist...

    “On April 16, I was returning from the university when six unidentified men on three bikes stopped me on Bosan Road near the Education University and tortured me,” he said...

  • NAB arrests former BZU vice chancellor

    ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday arrested former Vice Chancellor of Multan's Bahauddin Zakaria University (BZU) over irregularities and violation of rules for the establishment of a university’s sub-campus in Lahore...

    NAB's media release says that Khawaja Alqama along with Registrar Malik Munir Hussain, proprietors of West Continental Group Munir Bhatti & his son Hamza Munir, in connivance with each other...

  • BZU students stage demo for HEC approval

    Holding placards and banners, the students said the varsity administration charged hefty fee from them for different disciplines but the campus was not legal because it was not affiliated with the HEC...

    The NAB has arrested BZU Multan former VC Alqama and Lahore Campus Director Hamza Munir on charges of misuse of authority and cheating the public at large by opening a sub-campus of the varsity in Lahore illegally...

  • BZU declares BA, BSc results

    MULTAN: The Bahauddin Zakariya University on Friday declared the results of BA and BSc annual examinations 2015, with girls clinching all top positions...

    BZU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Khwaja Alqama was the cheif guest at the result declaring ceremony...

  • Tashfeen Malik was like normal students at BZU

    MULTAN/LAYYAH: Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani woman accused along with her husband of shooting dead 14 people in California last week, was a hard-working student who wanted to be a scientist in pharmacognosy — an interdisciplinary science that covers medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources...

    Tashfeen came to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia and studied B-Pharmacy at Multan’s Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) from 2008...

  • BZU economics dept ‘upgraded’

    MULTAN: The Bahauddin Zakariya University vice chancellor while exercising the powers of syndicate has granted the status of school of economics to the university’s economics department...

    He said: “After the Quaid-i-Azam University, BZU has established the school of economics and it is the first school of economics in Punjab...

  • Power politics on the campus: BZU academic, registrar embroiled in yet another case

    MULTAN: Alpa police registered a case against Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan’s registrar Malik Munir Husain, his brother and about 34 others for attacking the office of Institute of Social Sciences Director Dr Ishaq Fani, resorting to aerial firing and aiming a gun at him...

    In his FIR lodged under various sections, including those of 7-ATA, Dr Fani alleged that he was sitting in his office on Monday when 24 nominated persons,...

  • Letter to corps commander: BZU seeks explanation from teacher

    MULTAN: The Bahauddin Zakariya University vice chancellor has sought an explanation from the international relations department chairman for writing a letter to the corps commander about alleged security threats to him and the university...

    Dr Omer Farooq Zain wrote a letter attached with a set of documents and photographs to the corps commander on Nov 23, claiming that despite several directives from various quarters, the university...

  • BZU students again block Canal Road

    LAHORE: A large number of Lahore campus students of Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) on Monday blocked Canal Road for several hours against what they said government’s indifference to their demand for affiliation with the main campus in Multan...

    The protesters, a majority of them female students of the five-year doctor of physical therapy (DPT) programme, chanted slogans against the government, BZU vice chancellor and the Lahore...

  • BZU student rape case: Six accused sent on physical remand

    A duty magistrate on Friday granted police four-day physical remand of six men arrested in connection with the alleged rape and sexual harassment of a female student of the Bahauddin Zakariya University...

    The girl had on January 25 claimed that one of her class fellows had developed relations with her by making false promises of marriage
  • BZU student tortured by rival group

    MULTAN: A video of torturing a student in Bahauddin Zakariya University went viral on Sunday...

    BZU Resident Officer Dr Muqarrab Akbar said a letter was sent to the city police officer for action against the students with their names and addresses...

  • BZU teacher dismissed on charges of harassing female student

    MULTAN: The Bahauddin Zakariya University has dismissed a professor from service for harassing a female student through inappropriate behaviour and making her objectionable videos to blackmail her...

    The syndicate accepted the findings and recommendations of the committee and dismissed him from service with effective from Jan 19 last...

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