August 3, 2021
PESHAWAR: University of Peshawar (UoP) has stopped the 10-day salary of a number of the teaching staff on the charges of non-performance of duties.
The teachers, whose salaries were stopped included Dr Syed Owais, assistant professor, Dr Javeria Raza, Dr Naila Aman Qazi, Dr Zafar Khan and Ms Shehla Khan, lecturers in the Department of sociology.
Peshawar University Teachers Association (Puta) alleged this was because the teachers remained absent from campus for participation in the recent strike of teachers.A notification on Monday stated: “On the recommendation of the chairman, Department of Sociology, the faculty members of the department are treated as on leave without pay due to non-performance of duties since the day one of PUTA’s strike call with effect from 28-6-2021 to 7-7-2021.”
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June 1, 2021
PESHAWAR: Scores of university teachers sustained injuries and 24 were arrested on Monday when police resorted to baton charge and used tear gas shells against the faculty members of different universities of the province, who had gathered outside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly to press for acceptance of their demands.
The teachers from the public sector universities and non-teaching employees announced a boycott of academci activities in all the public sector universities of the province.
None of the universities would remain open for any academic or non-academic activities throughout the province until a formal apology is tendered to the protesting employees and all their demands are unconditionally accepted, declared Dr Fazle Nasir, central vice-president of the Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) and president Peshawar University Teachers Association (PUTA), while talking to The News.
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