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SHC orders Fuuast to maintain status quo on fresh appointments
July 20, 2021
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday ordered the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (Fuuast) and its acting vice chancellor (VC) to maintain status quo with regard to the announcement of fresh appointments of lecturers, associate professors, etc. in any department of the varsity till further orders.
The interim order came on a petition of Rasheed Khan and others who challenged the fresh appointment criteria by the varsity and the announcement of test results by the selection board.
The petitioners submitted that they had applied for different posts in BPS-18 to 21 in the university but the Fuuast administration conducted tests against the varsity’s own rules and policy.
ON June 12, I appeared in a screening test at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) in Karachi for the post of lecturer in English; a post for which I had applied in 2017. As the test had been delayed by four years, candidates like me had lost hopes and had even forgotten that they had paid Rs2,000 as the application fee. The delay was quite incomprehensible and unjust.
Besides, the test was more focussed on British History than English as it comprised many questions about British rulers of the past, their achievements, conspiracies, dates of their tenures and other major events of British history. Hardly 10 per cent weightage was given to the relevant subjects, such as English Literature, Linguistics and General / Remedial English. Further, around 30 out of 100 questions were purely about General Knowledge with special emphasis on certain topics.
Two members of the Fuuast senate have written a letter to the current acting administration of Fuuast to highlight what they called irregularities in the hiring process