|
Professor
Dean Faculty of Engg & IT
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Visiting Faculty Member
Department of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Associate Professor
Department of Engineering
Visiting Faculty Member
Department of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Visiting Faculty Member
Department of Engineering
Heads must be rolled down but whose?
Just a little while ago today Thursday 29th November, 2012 at 0540 my time and 0740 Pakistan time I visited the web site of National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad and to be honest I am both shocked and sad to find too much difference between what it mentioned on the face and inside about an Engineering teacher at NUML. The more I dig deep the more depressed I became or more correctly more ashamed I turned but for none of my fault whatsoever.
I am referring to none but Zahra Aleem who is shown as Assistant Professor along with her other colleagues, both senior and junior, at the front page of the faculty members where photo, name and position is mentioned of each and every one teaching functional Engineering at NUML. I realized that there were quite a good number of lecturers at the faculty which is quite but natural and just a few were classified as Assistant Professor so my inner interest grew up to read as to what could be the details written inside the page for the teaching faculty. I, therefore, quite naturally had to click to her name to read about her academic qualifications and experience etc and I was really astonished to see that over there she is classified just as a Lecturer and not as Assistant Professor. How it could happen alike is a truly baffling question to be honest at least for me if not for you, NUML and her?
To the best of my knowledge and belief at the time when I did MA in 1966 as a regular student of Political Science Department, Punjab University, Lahore the minimum qualification to apply for lectureship both at a college or university throughout Pakistan was a Master degree and I have my very serious doubts if it has changed since then. Let me say on my honor that the greater possibility could be that the minimum qualification may have been raised but it can never ever be lowered come what may despite the fact that I am continually outside Pakistan since 1976 but nevertheless there cannot be any compromise on such like basics. In this particular case she ought to be possessing Master degree even to be a lecturer what to talk of Assistant Professor but her personal page says that she did B. Sc Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering & Technology whereas it further reads saying, ‘M. Sc Engineering (continued) University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila which clearly means that she may eventually get Master degree from EUT, Taxila if she passes the examination but nevertheless certainly she has not earned Master till I read it at NUML site on Thursday 29th November at 0645 hours.
Now in the given situation so many very much relevant, demanding & intriguing questions arise which need answers not only from her herself but NUML too as to what could be the reality if it is not true as to what I have read. Who recruited her even as a lecturer and that too at such a prestigious university of the country when she did not meet the mandatory qualification is my very 1st question? How could she be shown as assistant professor at the faculty page whereas on her personal page she is classified as a lecturer is my second question? Why such like grave discrepancies and anomalies could not be spotted by anyone from within NUML is also a question? Didn’t she (Zahra Aleem) visit her site from day one till today is the real testing question? Who, after reading my text and the questions, will answer these very simple and straight forward questions is also a truly mind boggling and nervous question if I am not mistaken which certainly I am not? What impression did those foreigners who visited the site and read it had thought of Pakistan in general and NMUL in particular?
Needless to mention, university is the highest academic institution in each and every country including my beloved Pakistan from where people not only get education but inspiration too and therefore it is very sad to pen that the message conveyed to me by visiting the NUML’s web site is very much not only extremely discouraging but throat coking as well. I very sincerely wish that whatever I had read about her must be absolutely wrong and she must have done at least Master degree if not any higher degree. Perhaps regretfully the one who computed her information at NUML’s site did not compute the information as a fully educated and truly professional person otherwise I had not written on it which is too much time consuming in any case as I compute with just 1 finger and fully ignorant of touch system typing.
Someone must be very severely punished for intentionally or intentionally tarnishing the image of NUML, I very strongly recommend so that NUML reputation is not damaged alike unless we Pakistanis feel pride as turning ourselves as a laughing stock. Please update your web site which now I will continually monitor on regular basis and I of course I am to come back again but harder if the needful is not done on two counts namely Zahra Aleem education and title be corrected in the first instance as the case may be and then the one who was negligent in flashing the wrong information on the web site must be punished accordingly.
Iqbal Hadi Zaidi / Kuwait /
Faculties > Engineering & IT > Department of Engineering > Faculty Profile > Zahra Aleem
 Zahra Aleem
Lecturer
Department of Engineering
 051-9257646 EXT-295  zahra.aleem@gmail.com
- B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (UET Lahore)
- M.Sc. Electrical Engineering (continued) (UET Taxila)
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Visiting Faculty Member
Department of Engineering
|