Islamabad - Prof Dr Masood Hameed Khan, president of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC), has ordered to hold a high-level inquiry against Shifa College of Medicine and Dentistry Islamabad on the directions of Islamabad high court.
The inquiry committee will most probably be headed by Justice Tariq Pervaiz while Prof Dr Noushad A Sheik, vice chancellor Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences (LUMHS), and Prof Dr Mian Rasheed will be its members. The PM&DC has stopped admissions of Shifa College of Medicine at the directions of IHC vide its order W.P.No.3889 of 2014. Islamabad high Court (IHC) directed Shifa College of Medicine and dentistry to stop its medical and dental admissions until further orders.
A single bench of IHC comprising Athar Minallah issued these directions while hearing a petition entitled Ali Haq and others versus federation of Pakistan and others. This petition was filed by the students of Shifa College of Medicine Islamabad as the PM&DC has refused to register the students of Shifa College of Medicine after the college re-affiliated itself with an unrecognised Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University.
The court ordered the college to restrain from admitting students till it makes an arrangement with an institution recognised by the PM&DC for taking examinations, notwithstanding the delay in recognition of respondent.