Another student cries foul over Farah Hameed Dogar’s admission

Saturday, November 29, 2008

By Usman Manzoor

ISLAMABAD: As the controversy touched off by extra marks awarded to the chief justice’s daughter rages on, another student has come up with the claim that he has been refused admission to the Riphah International University on reserved quota.

Muhammad Haris Hassan, son of former assistant registrar of Supreme Court Chaudhry Abdul Razzaq, was allegedly denied MMBS admission, as the Al-Meezan Foundation recommended Farah Hameed Dogar for the seat reserved for children of the judicial staff.

According to an application, whose copy was made available to The News on Friday, Razzaq asked the Supreme Court registrar to recommend his son through the Al-Meezan Foundation for admission on the quota reserved for children of judicial employees.

In his application dated October 18, 2008, the retired assistant registrar wrote that his son Haris Hassan had secured 731 marks in the FSc (pre-medical) examination. He requested the apex court to propose the name of his son for admission on the reserved seat.

Speaking to this scribe, Razzaq complained the Al-Meezan Foundation had no transparent system of recommending students for admissions. The foundation’s secretary reportedly told him a candidate with 912 marks from Sindh had applied for the admission.

“Later, I came to learn from the press reports that the chief justice’s daughter, securing 661 marks, has been admitted to the Riphah International University,” he said, adding: “The secretary was solely responsible for administrative functions of the Al-Meezan Foundation, which lacks transparency and regard for merit.”

His son had every right to admission on the reserved seat because he had obtained higher marks than Farah Hameed Dogar, reiterated Chaudhry Razzaq, who underlined the need for adherence to merit.

A day earlier, the daughter of an Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court judge charged she had been deprived of admission to the university despite the fact she had got higher marks than Farah Dogar.

She accused the Al-Meezan Foundation, a trust working for the welfare of judges and which has reserved a quota in the university for children of judges, of giving the daughter of the chief justice priority over her competitors.

Misbah Mustafa Mughal, daughter of Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal, said she had obtained 787 marks in the intermediate examination and 74 per cent in the entry test, in which the chief justice’s daughter was awarded 61 per cent marks.

However, Misbah Mughal was told by the foundation that she was on the second number while there was only one reserved seat for the children of judicial News repeatedly tried to contact Talat Faruq, Al-Meezan Trust secretary, but he has been unavailable for the last three days. Several messages were passed on to him, but none was answered.

Source: The News

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