Overview
- KP’s Higher Education Department ordered public universities to stop male teachers from meeting female students in their offices.
- Universities must nominate a female faculty member in every department to receive student complaints under the directive.
- Mandatory awareness seminars and quarterly workshops on the Protection Against Harassment Act 2010 and HEC policies were instructed.
- The KP chief minister ordered an inquiry at the University of Peshawar and sought compliance reports, with the department to file regular progress updates.
- Islamia College Peshawar’s Political Science department banned direct contact across genders, barred office visits, appointed gender-specific coordinators, and required prior NOC for opposite‑gender meetings.