ISLAMABAD: Quaid-e-Azam’s apex decision making body, the syndicate, looks helpless before the administration of the varsity. The syndicate formulated a committee to probe into some allegations against the university’s vice chancellor but despite a given timeframe, the committee has not completed its assigned job so far. According to reliable information available with Daily Times, the Syndicate in its meeting held on March 1 constituted a two-member committee headed by Barrister Zafarullah and Sameena Qadir as the member. They both are the official members of the QAU’s Syndicate. The committee was assigned two different tasks and directed to conclude its findings within a fortnight. Firstly it would have to probe into the wrong information provided by the university administration, to the Chancellor of the University and President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain. The documents suggest that the QAU administration had cancelled the membership of Roshan Khurshid Brocha and Dr. Shahid Hassan Siddiqi from the previous Syndicate citing two separate reasons. The QAU informed the presidency that Khurshid Brocha did not attend three consecutive meetings of the Syndicate as a result of which her membership had been cancelled as per QAU rules. However, the documents reveal that Brocha did not commit such a violation. For the other member Dr Shahid Hassan Siddiqi, the university management told the presidency that he had resigned from the membership. Both Brocha and Siddiqi were startled when they learnt through the university’s letters that their membership of the Syndicate had been cancelled. They both approached the Chancellor’s Office and justified themselves while rejecting the statements of the varsity regarding their absence and resignation. Following this the President’s Secretariat directed to fix the responsibility on the person/persons for providing wrong information to the presidency. The second assigned task to Zafarullah’s committee was to probe into the allegations by Dr. Siddiqi on the QAU administration regarding changing the minutes of many decisions of the Syndicate. In the complaints to the Chancellor, Dr. Siddiqi pointed out many altered items of the previous Syndicates’ findings. For example he pointed out the withdrawal of the alleged sexual harassment by the Controller of Examinations, Sardar Babar Khan and the failure to provide him the Terms of Reference of the Committee (TOR) despite the registrar’s promise and the holding of an independent inquiry against the registrar Shafiqur Rehman and many other minutes of the 164th Syndicate meeting had been changed. He informed the chancellor that a series of Syndicate moves had been implemented differently instead of the actual decision of the supreme body. Then the Syndicate in the recent meeting devised and asked the Zaffarullah committee to investigate regarding the changed minutes matter. However, according to the sources, the committee did not call even a single meeting in this regard. They alleged that the committee actually did not intend to make any kind of decision which would go against the incumbent VC Javed Ashraf. “Due to which the matter is being lingered”, claimed an official who wished not to be named. Interestingly, the QAU administration sent the university registrar Shafiqur Rehman on forced leave for an indefinite period despite the fact that the minutes of the Syndicate meeting were not officially approved. The officials said that the QAU administration indeed intended to decide on their own in the absence of the Rehman, adding that the authorities were in haste to make such a kind of decision while they do not care about the timeframe given by the Syndicate to Zaffarullah’s committee. Surprisingly enough, the committee member Sameena Qadir when contacted said: “So for I have not been intimated about the formulation of any kind of such a committee which you are talking about”.