KARACHI: (Web Desk) The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi has cancelled a scheduled online seminar that was to feature celebrated economist Dr Atif Mian, the university announced on Thursday, allegedly due to pressure by “extremists”.
“Dr Atif R. Mian’s lecture ‘Why has economic growth fallen behind in Pakistan?’ scheduled on November 5, 2020, has been cancelled. Inconvenience is highly regretted,” read a brief post by the IBA Karachi’s official Twitter account. In a tweet, Mian said he was sorry to report that the seminar, which was to take place over Zoom, had been cancelled “due to threats that the university administration was facing from extremists”.
