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Teachers, students flay Balochistan University VC's killing
Lahore, April 24, 2008: The killing of the newly-appointed Vice-Chancellor of the
Balochistan University Dr Safdar Kiyani was widely condemned by the students and
teachers of various universities of the city on Wednesday who also demanded a
thorough investigation into the incident.
The Punjab University Academic
Staff Association (PUASA) staged a protest demonstration to condemn the murder
of the VC. A protest demonstration was staged after the PU teachers and students
offered funeral prayers of late Dr Safdar Kiyani at the New Campus. The
participants of the protest demonstration termed the incident a conspiracy
against teachers.
Speaking on the occasion, PUASA President Dr Mumtaz
Salik and Secretary Dr Mehar Saeed Akhtar said peace in educational institutes
could not be achieved unless those involved in the tragic incident were
punished. They expressed their solidarity with the teachers and students of the
Balochistan University, adding that black flags would be hoisted at different
important points of the university to mourn over the sad demise of the VC. The
PU faculty and students hoped that the investigatory agencies would fulfil their
responsibilities by bringing the culprits to justice without any
delay.
Various studentsí organizations, including the Insaaf Students
Federation (ISF) and the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), also condemned the killing
of the VC of the Balochistan University. The ISF activists also staged a protest
demo outside the Lahore Press Club. The Teaching Staff Association (TSA) of the
University of Engineering & Technology (UET) denounced the VCís murder,
saying the killing was a conspiracy to sabotage the peaceful environment of the
university.
The VC of the Government College University (GCU), deans of
various faculties and administrative staff expressed grief over the sad demise
of Dr Safdar Kiyani who was an Old Ravian.
Meanwhile, according to a
press release, on the call of the Federation of All Pakistan Universities
Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA), different teachersí associations at
various universities, including the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan,
and the Islamia University, Bahawalpur, offered funeral prayers of the slain VC
and later staged protest demonstrations to condemning the incident. The News
Large-scale arrests in connection with VC murder
Quetta: Police made large-scale arrests in Quetta on Wednesday
over the murder of Pro Vice Chancellor of Balochistan University, Professor Dr
Safdar Kiyani, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Mohamamd Akbar told Daily
Times. Police sources are refusing to disclose the exact number of those
detained. Arrests were made in the Sariab, Shalkot, Brewery and Saddar areas of
the provincial capital, the CCPO said. "We are interrogating all the arrested
people but no breakthrough has been made yet," he said. Independent sources say
the number of arrests made could be as high as 60. Daily Times
Balochistan varsity VC resigns
Quetta: The vice-chancellor and director general of human
resource of the Balochistan University have resigned in protest against a
decision of the governor-cum-chancellor to review cases of two sacked
teachers.
Major (retd) Tahir Qazi confirmed that he and
Vice-Chancellor Brig (retd) Agha Gul Ahmed had submitted their resignations to
Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi on April 21.
He said the university
administration had dismissed Agha Mohammad Nasir, lecturer in the university's
Urdu department, and Zakir Hussain Jadoon, former principal of the Quetta Law
College, in accordance with rules and regulations. He said the former
governor-cum-chancellor had also endorsed the decision.
Mr Tahir said
that Nawab Magsi had earlier ordered a review of the cases, but later retained
the dismissal decision of the university administration.
The sacked
teachers went on hunger strike on April 14 against the decision. The governor
invited the teachers for a meeting at the Governor's House on Wednesday, but the
meeting could not be held because of the murder of the pro vice-chancellor of
the university on Tuesday.
Mr Tahir said he and the vice-chancellor had
resigned because they wanted to uphold rules and regulations and maintain
discipline in the campus. Dawn
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