DERA GHAZIKHAN: Students of the Indus International Institute continue their protest against the institution`s failure to issue them degrees due to alleged recognition controversy.

On Tuesday, scores of students demonstrated on Kutchery Road and demanded issuance of degrees.

Holding placards inscribed with slogans against the institute`s administration, the students of various disciplines said they had completed two-year programmes but not been awarded degrees despite assurances.

Established by MNA Hafiz Abdul Karim to provide quality education to pupils in 2011,the institution admitted students to BS-MBA, mass communication, economics, environment science, master`s in English and microbiology.

Around 1,600 students including MPhil scholars have been struggling to get result cards and degrees and they have moved from pillar to post and resorted to protest but all their efforts have proved futile.

A student of the mass communication told Dawn that the Indus Institute had changed its affiliation three times; first it was affiliated with Urdu University, then a private institute of Lahore and of late it got affiliation of the Government College University, Faisalabad.

He said the last affiliation was cancelled by the GCU vice chancellor on the allegation of submission of invalid record of examination and result cards.

Another studentalleged that the institute issued two bogus result cards of an examination.

Those who got admission to MPhil classes on the basis of bogus result cards had been rudely awakened to the issue and forced to quit studies.

Indus International Institute Executive Director Dr Subhan Tariq says Governor Rafique Rajwana attended a hearing on March 14 in which he directed the Indus Institute and Faisalabad`s varsity to sort out the matter and save future of hundreds of students. He said the governor had asked the institution to improve the recruitment process and fulfill other obligations.

GCU Faisalabad Attorney Asif Latif, while speaking to Dawn, corroborated the governor`s intervention and said they were awaiting a written decision.