And Dr. Shahid Hussain Bokhari Quits… After having gone through the article and the 87 responses I would like to add a couple of points not yet discussed here. I have had a chance to be his student.

1) He was lucky to have published some papers in the early days of parallel computing. That is the only reason he is with ISI index of mostly cited authors.

2) Intellectually Dr Bokhari is a mediocre person. Most of his old students would testify that fact.

3) Socially he is an isolated person. He does not agree with any of his colleagues or students in any important point. He has created that aura of being a superior person over the years. No one can agree with rungBaz when he says that Dr Bokhari will live in the hearts of students. He has never been a popular teacher.

4) His special subject was elements of Boolean algebra. To be honest one does not have to be Einstein to understand that subject. The other area of his teaching was digital computing fundamentals. Again, it is quite a straightforward thing.

5) He had to teach communication systems at undergrad level once and one could see that the ‘mostly cited author’ was always groping in the dark and had to explain every time that it was not his subject.

6) In his letter of resignation most of the points are self contradictory. If he had to leave for some better opportunity or if he had the feeling that his decision to go back to Pakistan was wrong, he should have resigned quietly without much ado.

7) I am sure no one will miss him at UET.

8) It has never been teachers who primarily contributed to the quality of education at UET. Only the best students could get admission to UET and that was the reason why UETians are supposed to be better engineers. Take the example of Molwi Saleem. He is not proclaimed to be an intelligent person. Still he has contributed at least as much to the university as Dr Bokhari may claim to have done.

9) Most of the students will agree that in most respects Molvi Khalid Mahmood ul Hasan or Masood are much better teachers.

10) It is a sad fact that the university is regulated by a General and not by an academician. That is the only point why one would like to resign from UET. If that was his reason he should have mentioned it straight as he claims to be a straight forward person.