AJK PM orders immediate announcement of Mirpur Medical College results

Altaf Hameed Rao
MIRPUR (AJK): Prime Minister Azad Jammu and Kashmir Raja Farooq Haider Khan here on Thursday ordered the University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir to immediately announce the much-delayed results of the examinations of all due classes of the state-run Mohtrma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Medical College Mirpur – to defuse the prevailing unrest and tension among the college students.
The Prime Minister Haider, who is currently on two-day visit to Mirpur, issued these directives over the protest by the Medical College students at the Mirpur Divisional Headquarter Hospital during his visit to the hospital here this afternoon.The Prime Minister issued immediate directives to the Director General Health AJK Dr. Muhammad Bashir Chaudhry to immediately convey to the AJK University for announcing the results of the examination of all due classes of the college on May 12 – Friday, in all circumstances.MBBS Medical College Mirpur is affiliated with the public-sector AJK University. The results of Final year and other subordinate classes’ examination of the college were due to be held about four months ago. But because of the alleged mismanagement on the part of both the college and the AJK University, the results of the examinations conducted by the MBBS Medical College Mirpur could not be announced on time despite the passage of about four months, the demonstrating college students informed the Prime Minister.It may be mentioned here that the AJK State Government Health Authorities have principally decided to affiliate all the three public-sector medical colleges including MBBS Medical College Mirpur and rest of one each in Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot with the state-run University of Health Sciences Punjab to ensure the establishment of due credibility of all the State-controlled Medical Colleges of AJK.It may be added that the State Health Department’s top authorities have also reportedly moved to probe into the induction of the current faculty of all the above three state-run medical colleges in Azad Jammu Kashmir with prime focus to ascertain the eligibility of the current faculty to perform the academic activities in line with the stipulated criteria, set by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), the regulatory authority of the private and public sector medical and dental colleges in Pakistan including Azad Jammu & Kashmir, highly placed sources told this Correspondent.