The International Conference at Karachi University has been cancelled due to security situation, the Registrar of the university said on Thursday.

The conference was to be held in the last week of July on the topic of “Current Trends in Science, Engineering and Technology”.

The acting administration of Karachi University (KU) has failed to organize the first international conference on modern trends in science and engineering technology despite the plan for the conference finalized several months ago.

Delegates from Europe, the United States, Canada, the Middle East, and other countries had to attend this vital conference, but it was postponed for an indefinite time, two months before the decided schedule, under the pretext of security threats, despite there were no reservations from delegations about the security issue.

Karachi University Registrar Prof Maqsood Ansari has issued a letter in this regard in which he has advised to postpone an international conference to be held in the last week of July, saying that the arrival of delegations from other countries or cities in the current security situation is a huge risk. It should be noted that this conference was to be held on the theme “Current Trends in Science, Engineering and Technology”.

The Registrar of Karachi University himself was the chief organiser of the conference while the Acting Vice Chancellor Professor Naisra Khatoon as Dean of Sciences was its patron.

Prof Ansari said in the letter, “we had tried to hold the conference as per the schedule, but things were not going as we wanted. Therefore, the registration and sponsorship fees are being refunded by cancelling it and we will try to hold it again as soon as the situation improves”.

It is to be noted that the conference was cancelled by Karachi University two months before its convening on the occasion when the NED University in the vicinity of Karachi University held a conference on its campus in which the Minister for Boards and Universities Ismail Rahu also participated. Meanwhile, the security situation at KU is being described as bad or dangerous after the suicide attack on Chinese teachers.

Chinese teachers used to take these classes in NED and also lived there.

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