Shame covers sleaze
Many connected with the university admit that "seedy affairs had been going on in the holy precincts" for some time. – File Photo
ISLAMABAD: Sex scandals have rocked the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) in recent months, with several faculty and staff members accused of preying upon the vulnerable female students or juniors.
Many connected with the university admit that “seedy affairs had been going on in the holy precincts” for some time. But they did not speak on record.
Acting president Sahabzada Sajidur Rehman of the university, however, confirmed that recently a professor and a librarian left the university after allegations of rape emerged against them.
“We did not approach the police to investigate the allegations as it would have brought bad name to the university and set parents of the 9,500 girls studying here worrying,” he told Dawn on Thursday.
Sources in the university claimed that the professor of economics department used to offer his victims “good marks” in examinations in return for sex. He would even force himself upon the unwilling with threats of failing her.
It was shocking to hear the president of the University Staff Welfare Association, Chaudhry Mohammad Nazir, say “the situation is far worse than what you know”.
IIUI sources said the professor’s escapades came to an end after he landed his last victim on January 20, a Friday. The university asked the victim to file a formal complaint for initiating action against the accused but her family refused.
However, the students union took up her case and threatened the university administration it would go public with the evidence, the sources said.
It was claimed to be the same kind of evidence that had gone viral on the internet and forced the university’s old librarian to resign a few months earlier.
That was despite the university administration’s alleged attempt to make his victim – a female assistant – to resign on the charge that she was a willing partner. But she firmly refused and went on leave.
On her return, the administration assigned her to a new department, according to her colleagues.
It is not that families of the victims of coercive sex took their sufferings lying down. One father reported a senior faculty member to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat which instructed the Islamabad police to investigate.
When the investigators arrived to probe, however, the university officials pleaded with them to hush up the matter as “the accused has already been punished” and a probe would only tarnish the image of the university and scare the parents.
It is a different matter that for the librarian the punishment meant retiring six months before it was due, and for the professor resigning on his own and securing a new job in the National Agriculture Research Centre, allegedly with the help of friends in the bureaucracy.
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Thank GOD I read this before finalizing my decision to go back to Pakistan and be a faculty member at IIUI.
If Dr. Jabbar is innocent then it's ok. If not then it is the fault of his wife who is in Hawaii USA and not willing to return for last so many years. Every human has a devil in himself which is called "Khannas " in Islam. It can be active upto 95% anytime . Secondly a married person without wife has to face the attack of Khannas so man is poor and weak in nature and it can happen. One should offer prayers recite Quran as well as His wife should be with him because if wife is absent then wife has also a chance to slip somewhere else and husband can have affairs somewhere else., Beleive it or not it is a fact. I can be 50,60 r 70% right
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MSc Economics Finance 2008 from IIIE
Shame on all those teachers who have tried to exploit the noble profession of teaching just because of their lust. Please remember the day of justice, if today you do this in future somebody else will do the same thing with your own daughter so kindly, this kind of teachers must be punished as the symbol of lesson for other lusty males.
hey it is said by some HOD's of fms department that uni is seprating FMS from rest of other university due to mis-management, & Female FMS & Male FMS will be at dawah center IIUI, most powerful resource has given information that President of IIUI is almost completed with its research about this topic & in june 2012 it will be announced officially, this will help Fms to be the BETTER business school in islamabad because the vice President of university wants to close the Fms department in university.
Thank you for the update. please keep us posted with any new developments.
this can only be stopped if teachers are restricted to contact the female students only in the class. All assignment, marks announced in the class and hiding the name and roll number of the students.
i just can't believe this, as i know he is a very nice and innocent but if this is true that he done such crime so i would say shame on those teachers…
iiui economics graduate now working in a bank, i shocked when i heard this news from my colleague. i studied from Dr jabbar and idealize him, it was unbelievable. i contacted a friend in iiie last week to confirm this news. they told me the whole background that it is just a fake story and that's why they used library scandal just to degrade dr jabbar. shame on those who used a great man for the sake of their selfish objectives. library scandal was true but the news about economics teacher is a fake story. you can confirm it from iiie
Being former student of IIUI and very student of Dr. Jabbar, had two courses with him. I can't believe. He used to be so nice,cool etc.. Every student liked him. Even, he was ideal of some students. but u never know, what's in someone's heart. what is he doing behind the scenes. Totally shocked and embarrased,as every former islamian is. If this is going on in Islamic uni then what about others?? May be this is issue in Islamic uni,in other universities its no more an issue,, not defending this cruel act, but its time for a hard line like, legislation on these sort of issues
i am a student of dr jabbar. i taught by him in last semester. and i am telling you the truth that dr jabbar is really a nice man. and all this is propaganda by some few peoples. God knows the best that dr jabbar is innocent in this case.
Justice has long been done upon Abdul Jabbar. He has been thrown out of university. But head of department of mass communication, Dr. Zafar Iqbal, continues to go unpunished for sexually haressing girls and other staff members. His stories of molestation are everywhere but the administration is too afraid of him to take any action against him. Due to his haressment, some female employees have left the university. Now is the time to do justice with all molesters and it should not be limited to Abdul Jabbar only. Zafar is a bigger culprit that Jabbar.
firstly, one's personal desperation has nothing to do with the separate or combine mode of education. it's one's personal greed and stupidity.
secondly, two bad people cannot be the representatives of the whole university's faculty. so, stop linking once personal acts with separate education.
shame on him
he was not a teacher but a beast
shame in him
I HATE such teachers who exploit their students in the name of good g.p. shame on You. May all these teachers get punished in this life and here after. Ameen
i mst say dat da laws of islam should b followed strictly….n da one who had commited dis shamful crime must b punished as hard as islam orders right in4nt of whole university…….
it is shameful to be a student of iiui. punish the guilty person and give the punishment of rajim and 100 lashes in front of student.