The government of Sindh decided to remove Prof. Salman Raza from the post of director general (DG) of the Directorate of Inspection and Registration of Private Institutions Sindh (DIRPIS) on Wednesday.
This move came only two days after different private school organizations staged a press conference against him.
Chief Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sohail Rajput, dismissed him on the orders of Sindh Education Minister, Syed Sardar Ali Shah.
Salman Raza, a zoology professor and a Basic Pay Scale (BPS)-20 officer, recently irritated numerous private school alliances by criticizing them for charging parents additional fees and selling textbooks, uniforms, and stationery goods to students. Protests from private school organizations are alleged to have prompted his dismissal.
The DG’s dismissal also prompted parents to vent their displeasure on social media.
They said that the “mafia” has succeeded and that the government’s swift action has muted the parents’ legitimate concerns. They stated that they felt quite uneasy given the situation.
They questioned why such quick actions are not taken in response to the parents’ demands when they are forced to pay extra fees or in aid of the teachers who are made to work tirelessly but receive little compensation. They also requested the provincial government to take cognizance of their concerns as well.
There was once a story of a Zoology professor failing a Muslim student for answering a question about tapeworms in pork. Ironically, the professor taught that in class using a published McGraw Hill textbook that he replicated in his class lecture slides and notes. Little did the Muslim student know that his faith and the answer of that question would be construed as a “clash of civilizations”, which would awaken the inner crusader of the academic. It turns out that consuming pork is a core tenet of Western, Pauline Christianity just as “not” consuming beef is a part of the Hindu religion. Why did Paul, the Christian prophet of Jesus make consuming pork a condition to being a faithful Christian is anyone’s guess. But that’s practice and they’d be willing to go against their own science, that makes them so much better than the Moslems, to continue preaching this dogma. For Paul so loved the world, that he mandated his only preferred meat to the faithful as a condition of their faith, so that something or someone could be “saved”. What exactly, nobody knows. He wasn’t animal farming so it wasn’t a pro-farmers, agricultural policy. Unless, it was.