HYDERABAD: SU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Fateh Muhammad Burfat, nullifying all charges against him, has termed ACE investigation report against him as "bogus and mala fide", and has declared it as a part of vendetta campaign lunched by some disgruntled elements as a result of the reform and development initiatives he has been able to implement at the Varsity in the last three and a half years.

"I have thought of SU as my benevolent mother and have served it to the best of my ability and conscience", reiterated the VC.

Dr. Burfat said in his capacity as Chief Guest on the occasion of cheque distribution ceremony organized at Senate Hall of the Vice Chancellor Secretariat Students' Financial Aid Office (SFAO) in which as many as 1313 students of Sindh University from across various departments /institutes were given away scholarship cheques on poverty-need-and-merit basis under the aegis of Government of Pakistan's Prime Minister's Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship Programme - each scholarship is worth PKR 40, 000 per anum. Approximately 2481 SU students had applied for the said award. However, 1313 made it to wining this stipend.

The Vice Chancellor observed that during his tenure, the academic process had gone on uninterrupted, the infrastructure had been revamped to match international standards, the Varsity improved its ranking at national and global levels, admission, attendance and examination systems were brought to virtual mode giving SU world class best practices, use of unfair means in college examinations had been nabbed, international conferences were held and a number of other such innovations were effected.

" When some elements in and outside the University saw the Varsity scaling ever new heights of success and glory they became my bitter rivals and began hatching conspiracies to upset and fail me so that I lose focus."

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