Higher Education Institutions (“HEIs”) are highly consequential institutions in society that
are dedicated to the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. Members of the HEI community
have several important rights and privileges, central among which is the right to pursue inquiry
and search for knowledge without hinderance from unlawful or otherwise unacceptable
constraints. The Higher Education Commission (the “HEC”), which has been mandated by law to
prescribe conditions under which HEIs in the country may be opened and operated, takes very
seriously the freedom of teachers, researchers, scholars, students and other members of the
HEI community to live and work in a safe environment in which their dignity is protected.
Protection against harassment is important not only because it threatens the freedom
and conduciveness of the environment at institutions of higher learning. At a more fundamental
level, such conduct is unacceptable because it violates personal dignity and shall not be
tolerated at HEIs in Pakistan under any circumstances.
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