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India-Pakistan

Inshallah management mars Islamic university's affairs

2014-10-05

[DAWN] International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) has been marred by administrative mismanagement, which is evident from the fact that eight faculty/departments are being run on ad hoc basis.

According to sources, the faculty of Islamic Studies (Usuluddin), which is one of the pioneer departments of IIUI, is being run by Assistant Professor Dr Haroonur Rashid who is working as a deputy dean – a post which does not exist.

A source said there was no provision for the post of deputy dean in the university’s rules.

He said the president of the university, Dr Ahmad Yousif A. Al Draiweesh, was the dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies but most of its affairs were being run by the deputy dean.

Interestingly, the source said Dr Haroonur Rashid, who was a Grade 19 officer, even had Grade 20 professors working under him.

Similarly, the faculty of Arabic was being looked after by an associate professor, Dr Hafiz Bashir, working as an acting dean for the last two years.

Posted by:Fred

#3 And all this time, I thought John Frum was a Rantburg reporter on the Indian subcontinent!

Posted by: Bobby 2014-10-05 11:09

#2 And there's this unrelated bit from the same site:

A recent development is the appearance of the Prophet Fred, an actual person who claims to have raised his wife from the dead in early 2006. He preaches a turn to more mainstream Christianity, and his followers have had violent clashes with those of John Frum.

Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-05 09:15

#1 Cargo-cult management:

When the war ended several years later, the The men and women of Tanna Island had grown to enjoy the radios, trucks, boats, watches, iceboxes, medicine, Coca-Cola, canned meat, and candy, so they set into motion a plan to bring back the cargo. They had surreptitiously learned the secrets of summoning the cargo by observing the practices of the American airmen, sailors and soldiers.

The islanders set to work clearing their own kind of landing strips, and they erected their own control towers strung with rope and bamboo aerials. They carved wooden radio headsets with bamboo antennae, and even the occasional wooden air-traffic controller. Day after day, men from the village sat in their towers wearing their replica headsets as others stood on the runways and waved the landing signals to attract cargo-bringing airplanes from the empty sky. More towers were constructed, these with tin cans strung on wires to imitate radio stations so John Frum could communicate with his people. Piers were also erected in an effort to attract ships laden with cargo...

Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-05 09:11

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