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Punjab University party spoilers booked
LAHORE, April 17(Daily Times): The Punjab University (PU)
administration has lodged an FIR against the people who disrupted the festival
organised by the PU Pharmacy College on Saturday evening.
A PU official
said on Monday that 60 to 70 students including Muhammad Ayub,
Nissar, Imran Kiyani, Hafiz Tauseef and Zahid Nazeer had been nominated in the
FIR. He said that a case had been registered against them under the Anti
Terrorism Act.
According to the FIR, Pharmacy College principal Dr
Jamshaid on Saturday received a call on his cell-phone. The unidentified caller
threatened him and told him that not to hold the function. "More than 70 people
stormed the venue for the festival. They beat up some students, a teacher and a
guard besides damaging windowpanes, crockery and a multimedia projector," the
FIR adds.
The PU teachers and students, who attended the function, said
that about 60 to 70 IJT activists led by PU IJT nazim Muhammad Ayub disrupted
the function. In a press statement, IJT said that the function was sabotaged
because 'un-Islamic activities'. PU registrar Dr Naeem
Khan said that the inquiry committee had submitted its report to the
vice-chancellor. However, he did not disclose its details.
The Punjab
University (PU) inquiry committee formed to investigate the beating-up of some
students of the PU English Department by the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT)
activists has submitted its report to the vice-chancellor. A PU official told
said on Monday that in the light of the report, stern action would be
taken against the people who beat up the students.
The IJT, in a press
statement, had admitted that some students of the English Department were beaten
up by some IJT activists for their involvement in 'immoral
activities'.
Talking to reporters on Monday, PU Academic Staff
Association president Dr Mumtaz Salik said that the PU administration should not
organise music concerts because such event had nothing to do with educational
activities. He also criticised hooliganism at the festival organised by the
Pharmacy College.
Separately, according to a press statement issued by
the IJT, a large number of PU students staged a protest demonstration outside
the vice-chancellor's office for allegedly promoting vulgarity in the varsity by
organising musical concerts.
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