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KARACHI: Prof Dr Muhammad Tufail Jokhio, who is currently serving as the vice chancellor of NED University of Engineering and Technology, is set to assume the additional responsibility of the vice chancellorship of the University of Karachi on Tuesday (today) till the appointment of a regular VC.
He will replace Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi, whose four-year tenure ended on Monday. Dr Iraqi has been heading the province’s largest public sector university since 2019 when he was appointed as the acting VC. Later, he was appointed as the permanent vice chancellor in 2022.
The provincial government’s move to appoint an acting VC was widely welcomed by teaching and non-teaching staff of the varsity.
The Karachi University Teachers’ Society (Kuts) has appreciated the development, while expressing the hope that employees’ “critical issues” will be sorted out soon.
