Dr Agha Ghazanfar, who is banned by a high court order from running the affairs of the Aitchison College, has said that he will fight the case to its logical end.
Talking to Pakistan Today Editor Arif Nizami in Channel 24’s DNA talkshow, Ghazanfar said he was hopeful he would be reinstated as the institute’s principal.
The Lahore High Court had overturned Ghanzanfar’s dismissal, but later on ruled that he could not do his job though he could use his official residence.
Ghazanfar said he was writing a “prisoner’s diary” about the situation he was in after taking legal action against the college’s decision in July to sack him just seven months after he took over for a five-year term.
He said he was being penalised for allegedly refusing admissions to scions of some influential families on a kinship basis. The academician lamented that his attempts to enforce merit in admissions in the college had resulted in severe backlash from political circles.
“I came back from Britain to defend the baseless allegations cooked up against me by the Board of Governors at the behest of important political figures. I will not let them tarnish my reputation because my stance against corruption and nepotism and upholding of merit is justified,” he said.
