QUETTA, Sept 19: Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi has asked the Balochistan University of Information and Technology and Management Sciences to formulate a well-defined admission policy within three days.

Presiding over a meeting of the university committee on Thursday, he said that if the university administration did not come up with a policy he himself would do it. The committee formed by the provincial government has so far failed to decide whether the admission should be based on merit or quota.

Abdul Qahar Wadan and Ahmed Jan of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and Dr Hayatullah Khan of the Awami National Party support the merit system and Sardar Aslam Bizenjo and Mir Asad Baloch of the Balochistan National Party (Awami) and Kachkol Ali Baloch of the National Party want admission based on quota.

According to a government handout, Nawab Magsi, who is also chancellor of the university, suggested that 10 per cent of admissions should be based on open merit, 50 per cent on ‘provincial merit’ and the remaining 40 per cent on quota.

Sardar Bizenjo and his colleagues supported the governor’s proposal but Qahar Wadan and Ahmed Jan opposed it.