A three-member committee has been formed in Malakand University to investigate the allegations of sexual harassment brought by a Chinese student against her professor, The News reported. Quoting unnamed sources, the report said a Chinese student who has been pursuing her MPhil in the university has approached the high-ups in the university as well as in the government with serious allegations of sexual harassment against a senior professor in the Department of English. The university has formed a three-member committee to probe the matter, the publication said. The committee, according to sources, has held four meetings so far and it will submit its report soon. Some members of the committee, when approached by the newspaper, confirmed they had started proceedings but declined to comment considering it as a “highly confidential” matter. The university’s spokesman, Fida Khan, also declined to comment till submission of the committee’s report. He only said that an “unofficial email has been made to an unofficial address” in which allegations of sexual harassment have been made against a professor of the university.