Notification for Students
Tuesday, June 14 2016
A special Dean’s Committee was convened on Tuesday, June 14, 2016. The members of the Committee offered fateha for the departed soul of Mr. Muhammad Moin Manzoor, a student of BBIS (3rd Semester). The Committee also extended condolences to the bereaved family on the sad demise of their son on behalf of the entire UMT community. The members of committee were deeply moved by sudden death of one of the young participants and affirmed his death as martyrdom in the sacred way of knowledge to be commemorated for all times.
The Committee was informed that Mr. Moin Manzoor collapsed in front of the Library building around 2:17 pm on 13th June 2016. He was immediately helped by his friends, staff, and people around him. An emergency call was placed for 1122, which arrived within 10 minutes and entered UMT in no time. He was rushed to Jinnah hospital by 2:35pm, where his passing away was confirmed. The Committee was informed that his sudden death probably points to a previously undiagnosed underlying medical condition, from which he could not recover after suffering syncope. He probably breathed his last soon after he collapsed. He compliant of chest pain in the morning and went through checkup a week earlier.
A holiday was announced by UMT management on 14th June to allow his colleagues and staff to offer Namaz-e-Janazah in his home town in Dist. Narowal.
The committee also took following decisions in order to streamline the academic matters in view of the holiday that was announced for all students during the ongoing examination session:-
- All end term exams scheduled for 14th to 18th June will not be taken now. The evaluation of the courses for which the end term exams were scheduled will now be based upon sessional work.
- The courses to be offered in summer session will be exempted from teaching. These courses will be offered as guided study through UMT-LMS and course outlines will be uploaded by July 18th 2016. The teacher-student interaction will be facilitated online. Those who registered in the Summer as a repeat course will now have a chance to clear their courses on the basis of a two hour exams to be held during August 15-21, 2016. The date sheet will be announced by August 01, 2016.
- Those participants who registered courses for the first time for Summer 2016 session will have to take these courses in regular semesters and their registration for summer will be cancelled. Only repeat course(s) registrations are allowed.