The Increased Training Fee (HEC) on Thursday withdrew its current order directing larger schooling establishments to “distance themselves” from actions “incompatible with the nation’s identification and societal values” — an order that led to a lot controversy within the nation.
The HEC, in its notification, maintained that it revered all religions and faiths, and the celebrations related to every.
“The Increased Training Fee (HEC) is very respectful of all religions, faiths, and beliefs, and the related festivals and celebrations noticed within the nation.
“The message communicated on this regard is under no circumstances supposed to harm the emotions of any particular person or group,” the fee clarified.
Earlier this week, a notification from the fee had earned the physique folks’s ire.
In a notification issued on Tuesday, the fee spoke about one such “broadly reported” and “publicised” occasion involving the zeal exhibited in celebrating Holi from the platform of a college, including that it had “precipitated concern and has disadvantageously affected the nation’s picture”.
The fee’s order got here within the wake of Holi celebrations held on the Quaid-i-Azam College (QAU) in Islamabad, which stirred controversy throughout the web, with some commending the present of variety and others criticising the organisers for going in opposition to Islamic values.
In mild of the lash again and the controversy thus created, the HEC has now acknowledged that the earlier order was “out of context”.
“The portrayed impression and disseminated connotation that HEC has banned’ celebration of any festivities is out of context to the spirit of the communication made, as HEC has emphasised upon the Increased Training Establishments (HEIs) within the nation to focus upon the core cause of their existence i.e., educational excellence, analysis high quality and harnessing the expertise of the youth in direction of a structured, disciplined, and accountable citizen as per the nation’s ideology,” the assertion learn.
The notification additionally added: “Contemplating that the message inferred from the communication has regrettably led to misinterpretations, HEC is happy to withdraw the identical.”
Throughout a nationwide meeting session at the moment, the NA speaker condemned the ban and ordered it instantly withdrawn.
Taking to its official Twitter deal with, the NA wrote: “Whereas taking discover concerning the ban imposed by HEC on Holi celebration in academic establishments, NA Speaker cited the Goal Decision and the Structure of Pakistan (1973), which acknowledge the rights of minorities and guarantee freedom for all spiritual sects to apply their spiritual actions.”
Speaker issued a ruling to reverse the unlawful and unconstitutional determination of the HEC, and subsequently, the Parliament will actively pursue the matter. “