University of Karachi has a zero-tolerance policy regarding drug and tobacco use on campus as the KU discourages the consumption of tobacco substances in any form in academic and residential zones of the University of Karachi. The KU has already implemented the Higher Education Commission-Islamabad policy on drug and tobacco abuse in the higher educational institutions of the country in letter and spirit and it has included clause(s) regarding discouraging the use of cigarettes and tobacco in any form on campus for the last few decades.
These views were expressed by the KU Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi during a meeting with the Director of Research and Analysis Activities HEC-Islamabad Engineer Sulaiman Ahmad at the KU Secretariat on Wednesday. Professor Dr Farah Iqbal, Professor Dr Tanveer Abbas, Dr Salman Zubair, and Dr Nosheen Raza were also present on this occasion.
The VC shared that they have managed to remove the illegal slums, with the help of the authorities concerned, which have encroached on the KU land and been found involved in selling drug substances in the city. We have now allowed the nurseries to set up plant sales outlets to make that part of the land a green and clean territory. He informed Sulaiman Ahmad that recently several agencies had conducted an on-ground survey and shared their findings with him according to those reports the KU was one of the public sector universities where the use of tobacco was found in very low numbers.
Those reports have appreciated our efforts in making a tobacco-free campus, and give us the highest ratings, he added. He shared that besides taking strict measures against the use of tobacco on campus.
