KARACHI: The Sindh government has announced the appointment of Dr Nasira Khatoon as the acting vice-chancellor of the University of Karachi.
Dr Nasira is a senior professor at the varsity and has served as the dean of the Faculty of Science. She has been appointed as acting VC on the basis of an interim arrangement until further orders.
On February 24, the Sindh High Court removed Professor Khalid Iraqi as the vice-chancellor of the university, after noting serious allegations levelled against him. It had directed Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to appoint a permanent vice-chancellor within three months.
The court had ruled: Before parting with this order, we have noticed that serious allegations have been levelled against the present Acting Vice-Chancellor of the respondent university as discussed in the preceding paragraphs, therefore, we deem it appropriate to direct the respondent-university to forward the names of 10 senior most professors according to the seniority list maintained by the respondent university to be placed before the worthy Chief Minister, Sindh to nominate one senior-most professor in BPS-22, who shall be notified as the acting Vice-Chancellor in the intervening period.
Dr Nasira initially joined the Department of Zoology in 2005 and was later appointed dean in 2020. She has various books to her name and is counted as the senior most professor at the varsity. The professor is expected to retire in December, 2022.
