Abstract

An application No.: 377/625 dated to March 23, 2022 is filed in the office of Chaudhry
Muhammad Sarwar, Governor of the Punjab, Upper Mall, Lahore, Pakistan regarding the
“Concealment of facts and hiding the record of illegal appointment of professor of
pharmacy, University of Sargodha”. The letter No. SU/Admin(E-I)/14146 dated
November 04, 2021 issued by Registrar office (Assistant Registrar Est.-I), University of
Sargodha, sent to A&C Division, Higher Education Commission, Islamabad was received,
in response of an application No.: 377/621 dated July 03, 2021. Unluckily, the respondent
of this case, office of the registrar University of Sargodha is consistently hiding the record
and concealing the fact since last about six years. A case was then initiated by filing an
official application dated March 15, 2016 to grant access to the official record under the
“Right of Information Act, 2013” and authenticate the appointment of subjected cited
professor of Pharmacy. The author of this editorial article was then Assistant Professor
(microbiology) in that university and put himself at high level of risk regarding security of
employment, because the aforesaid professor was his recent boss. He was also an
effective instrument of then vice chancellor to perform certain critical roles.