Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has written a letter to the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and co-ordination to de-notify seven universities for not having their constituent medical or dental college. According to PMDC, these universities included University of Punjab Lahore, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Hazara University Mansehra, Sarhad University Peshawar, University of Peshawar, University of Sindh Hyderabad Jamshoro and University of Karachi.
It said that after the Amendment Act 2012 universities that do not have their own constituent medical dental college will not be recognised and notified by the PMDC.