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Rangers baton, 10 KU students injured
KARACHI, Dec 16, 2007: As many as 10
Karachi University students were injured due to the baton charge carried out by
Rangers and Security officials on the students at GateII of the university here
on Saturday.
According to details, students and Rangers officials scuffled
when a student Akram Khan was brutally beaten by a Ranger official and security
official Abid Khan and Mudasir posted at Sheikh Zaid gateII to control the
traffic coming out form Karachi University.
Akram Khan, riding a motorcycle,
stopped by a ranger official when he appeared on the wrong track of the road due
the severe traffic jams on the gate.
When student didn't stop, the ranger
and security officials run after him and caught him near the gate and started
beaten him with baton, meanwhile some other students came and tried to stop the
officials, they also received the same treatment which irked the hundreds of
other students present on the gate and the scuffled with the
situation.
Meanwhile when other security officials who were posted on the
gate, saw the situation they joined their colleagues and started baton charge on
the students as result 10 students namely Hassan gul, Iftikhar Ali, Mehmood
Baqar, Kamran Farhan, Muhammad Afzal, Farrukh Sial, Kashif Khan, Imran Naseem,
Naveed Anjum and Sameer Ahmed received wound.
After the clash between
students and Rangers officials severe traffic jam occurred on the University
Road and thousands of vehicles stuck in it.
The hundreds of students also
protested against the brutal torture on the students and blocked the traffic for
hours.
Angry students said that thousands of students are taking
part in the exam but management of the university not taking interest to giving
them easy access inside the university and Rangers officials treating the
students like a terrorist.
It may be noted here that thousands of students
are participating in the exam of graduations and university management had
opened only one gate for the entrance and execution which had created a
miserable condition on the gate and its also a cause for severe traffic jams on
the university road. The Nation
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