IBA Sukkur scandal victim claims coerced to accuse wrong person
National
May 7, 2021
SUKKUR: The student’s video scandal accusing some administration officials and faculty members of the IBA University, Sukkur, has taken a new stance, saying she was coerced into wrongly accusing an innocent person.
A student of IBA University Sukkur, Bakhtawar Soomro, had levelled allegations against Hussain Siddiqui, the son of former VC Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui. Addressing a press conference on Thursday at the Sukkur Press Club, she retracted her allegations and alleged she was forced to do so by the IBA’s Investigation Committee and SSP Sukkur Irfan Sammo, who threatened to kill her family if she did not name Siddiqui as the main accused.
Petition filed in SHC against IBA Sukkur faculty
National
April 30, 2021
SUKKUR: A constitutional petition seeking judicial probe into the allegations of sexual harassment by the IBA University Sukkur faculty and officials, levelled by a varsity student, has been filed in the SHC. A member of the Sindh Bar Council and former president High Court Bar Association Sukkur, Advocate Qurban Ali Mallano, filed the constitutional petition in the Sindh High Court, Sukkur Bench, on Thursday. Meanwhile, the chief minister Sindh, who is also the chancellor of the university, has ordered secretary boards and universities to look into the case and furnish him a report within seven days.