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One doesn’t need to be a sportsperson to get admittance into the University of Karachi: as many as 450 students were granted admissions to...

The University of Karachi (KU) has cancelled admission of 18 students, who were enrolled in different departments of the university and its affiliated colleges,...

The threat of sectarian clashes is increasing at the University of Karachi (KU) due to greater than ever intolerance among the students of various...

Dr Rafia Taj, the chairwoman of the University of Karachi (KU) Mass Communication Department, has resigned in protest against the apathy showed by the...

The administration of the University of Karachi (KU) has failed to provide security to female students of the varsity, despite receiving complaints from a...

Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan – two organisations banned by the Pakistani government in 2001 on charges of fomenting sectarianism and killing in the...

KARACHI - A daycare centre would be set up soon at the University of Karachi (KU), Sindh Women Development Minister Tauqir Fatima Bhutto said on Tuesday. The minister was speaking with a four-member delegation of the KU faculty that met her at her office.
The delegation was led by Prof Samina Qureshi, who is also the convener of KU day-care managing committee. The minister said that the Department of Women Development in collaboration with the KU would soon set up the daycare

KARACHI - The five men arrested in connection with the recent bombing at the University of Karachi (KU) have admitted having links to several religious groups that funded their militant operations in the city against the people of the Shia sect.
Disclosing the facts revealed in several interrogations with the detainees, police sources said that the accused men had planned operations against people belonging to different organisations, including a student body representing the

KARACHI - The Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) has awarded PAS Gold Medal to Prof Dr Khalid M Khan - a senior scientist of the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi - in recognition of his services in the field of chemistry.
A spokesman for the ICCBS said on Saturday that Dr Khan is considered one of the senior most scientists of the centre. He said that Dr Khan is busy in research and academic activities at HEJ Research

KARACHI - The row between the University of Karachi (KU) administration and its teachers over the varsity syndicate's two controversial meetings has taken a sectarian colour, it has been learnt. A high-ranked KU official in an interview with Pakistan Today on Saturday alleged that a group of teachers belonging to a sect has started campaigning against the university's high-ups to tarnish their image.
"A particular group of teachers had started blackmailing the KU administration

KARACHI - Karachi University Teachers Society (KUTS) President Abid Hasnain on Thursday wrote a letter to Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan - also the KU Chancellor - apprising him about legal irregularities in the university's system as the KU Syndicate has been working without any representation from the varsity senate and that memberships of six syndicate members have expired. The teachers of University of Karachi (KU) have pit themselves against the administration and warned of

KARACHI - The Department of International Relations of the University of Karachi (KU) has organised the third SAARC Simulation Exercise, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation Islamabad, from today (Monday) till March 3.
A KU official said on Sunday that 56 students from various universities of Pakistan would participate in the simulation exercise whose inaugural session is to be held today with KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui as the chief

KARACHI - For the first time in the 60-year history of the University of Karachi (KU), the varsity's administration called in sniffer dogs at the campus for security, sources told Pakistan Today on Tuesday. KU high-ups arranged sniffer dogs to be at the campus for searching the gymnasium and parking lot opposite the sports centre, where two student programmes were scheduled to be held.
Earlier, officials of Sindh Police's Special Branch inspected both the locations. Rangers'

KARACHI - The University of Karachi (KU) on Monday called a meeting of its academic council on January 20 to decide the fate of the university's BS and MS programmes.
The university has decided to hold the meeting after it received no response from the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to its recommendations that it should be provided funds and expertise to run these programmes.
The KU management had recommended to the HEC to restore the BA, BSc, MA, MSc and MPhil programmes

KARACHI - The University of Karachi (KU) would start generating its own electricity through a substation that was launched at a ceremony held at the Khan Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (KIBGE) on Thursday.
The project of the substation, funded by the Higher Education Commission, was constructed with a cost of Rs 9 million.
With its 802-kilowatt installation capacity, the substation would be able to provide uninterrupted power supply to the institute, so

KARACHI - An anti-terrorism court on Thursday remanded into police custody three suspects of the Karachi University (KU) cracker blast until January 20.

KARACHI - The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Karachi police on Wednesday claimed arresting three University of Karachi (KU) students for their involvement in the cracker blast at the university.
The SIU also said that it has recovered a large quantity of weapons from the arrested men's possession.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, DSP Ali Raza said that three suspects - Mohammad Umar alias Chhotu, Syed Fayyaz Ali and Mohammad Hafeezullah - were arrested with