LAHORE: Minister for Higher Education Raja Yasir Hamayun Sarfraz says creation of the Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) under the 18th Amendment was a mistake.
Terming the PHEC a ‘useless entity’, he says the “amendment is not a sacred document which can’t be changed.”
He was addressing the oath-taking ceremony of the Lahore Education Reporters Association (LERA) at the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) Campus on Wednesday.The minister said some of the provinces, including Punjab and Sindh, had established their education commissions which were overlapping the role of federal Higher Education Commission (HEC).
He said if the [PTI] government attained a two-third majority in next vote, it would make education a federal subject. “The previous governments had made some mistakes in shifting higher education to provinces and this mistake could be rectified,” he said.
LAHORE: Lahore College for Women University on Tuesday hosted the first training workshop on use of Safe City App with the collaboration of Punjab Higher Education Commission and Safe City Authority.
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However, he warned, the opposition alliance would not gain anything from it.
He said the PDM was facing visible divisions in its ranks, as every party was trying to safeguard its political and personal interests. “No matter how hard they try, they will have to come to the negotiating table,” he said, while talking to the media at Governor’s House after meeting different delegations here. The governor welcomed the opposition parties’ decision to take part in the Senate and by-elections. He said the country was facing many challenges including inflation, and the government was using all its resources to tackle them. He said Maulana Fazlur Rehman had already staged a long march from Karachi to Islamabad, and the PTI government had not created any hurdle in it. “If the PDM
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