PM forms committee to sort out Quaid-i-Azam University's affairs.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has formed a committee to resolve the issues of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) which recently saw clashes among its ethnic student groups.

The university every year faces closure because of clashes on the campus.

The high-powered committee is headed by Education Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain and consists of Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan, Secretary Education Waseem Ajmal Chaudhry, QAU Vice Chancellor Dr Niaz Ahmad Akhtar, Chief Commissioner Islamabad Noorul Amin Mengal and others.

Sources said the committee was likely to hold its first meeting on Wednesday. The sources said the government was planning to help the university set up a representative body of students instead of ethnic-based student politics.

Meanwhile, the newly-appointed VC of the university Dr Niaz Ahmad Akhtar called on the minister and the secretary education.

The participants of the meeting discussed holding of the first meeting of the high-powered committee to resolve QAU's issues.

Last week, QAU saw ethnic-based student groups fighting each other that left two dozen students injured.

Resultantly, the university remained closed and was partially reopened on Monday only for MPhil and PhD classes.

Meanwhile, a press release about the meeting quoted the minister as saying that challenges faced by QAU required immediate attention.

The minister said issues of QAU...