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Punjab University firing incident
PU incident culprits still on campus
Lahore, DEC 16: The Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) activists who allegedly fired at a group of Punjab
University (PU) students, are still residing in PU hostels, said PU students on
Monday.
On December 2, the IJT allegedly opened fired at a group of
students from the University Students Federation (USF), and injured nine people,
of which two were seriously wounded. Governor Salmaan Taseer visited the injured
students at the Jinnah Hospital and ordered the inspector general and PU
Vice-Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran to take action against the IJT.
On
December 5, after the Friday prayers, students from the Insaf Students
Federation (ISF) gathered in front of the PU central mosque and shouted slogans
against the instigators of the violence. The protesters demanded the government
eradicate all such terrorist elements from the PU and arrest those responsible.
However, during the protest, several IJT activists entered the protest and
started shouting their own traditional slogans. Dozens of university security
guards were reportedly present on the occasion, but they did not take any
action.
FIR: According to a first information report (FIR) registered
with the Muslim Town police, IJT activists Hafiz Farhan, Riaz Ashraf, Ansar
Shoaib, Usman, Ramzan, Sajid and Qasim Gujjar had fired at the USF students. PU
Registrar Dr Naeem Ahmed Khan said an FIR had been registered against the
accused and the police should arrest them. USF President Atif Naeem Ranjha said
the IJT activists who opened fired on students were still residing in the PU
hostels. PU student Amir Jalal said they had contacted the PU administration and
the police regarding the IJT activists' presence on campus, but to no avail.
Another student said that main culprits behind the firing incident Sabir Shah
and Ansar were seen on the campus several times.
Police: Muslim Town
police Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Muhammad Tariq said the FIR had
been registered against five students, but they got an interim bail until
December 20.
PU IJT General Secretary Hamadullah said none of IJT
activists had been arrested. Separately, the Muslim Town police have allegedly
detained PU Professor Dr Nasir Ahmad to question him about the whereabouts of
his son-in-law, an IJT activist, who is accused of involvement in a shooting
incident. Daily Times
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Punjab University teachers' bodies play blame game: Professor's interrogation
Lahore: Two associations representing Punjab University teachers
have entered into a blame-game following police's visit to the official
residence of director of Institute of Geology and his consequent escort to a
police station for interrogation about his son-in-law's involvement in the Dec 3
firing at university hostels.
Leaders of the Punjab University Academic
Staff Association (PUASA) executive committee and the Punjab University Teachers
Front (PUTF), a rival group in the association elections, on Monday addressed
separate press conferences at the Lahore Press Club. The PUASA office-bearers
claimed that the PU administration was fully involved in letting police
humiliate the senior professor, while of the PUTF criticised the former for
distorting facts for securing political mileage in the upcoming
elections.
PUASA president Dr Mumtaz Salik flanked by secretary-general
Dr Mahr Saeed Akhtar, vice-president Dr Akhtar Saleemi and joint-secretary
Muhammad Sajid said the police raid at the residence Prof Dr Naseer Ahmad and
his subsequent detention at the police station for hours had sent a wave of
restlessness among teachers.
Saying the incident had tarnished the
glorious 130-year PU history, Dr Salik alleged that the university
administration, being complainant, had "manoeuvred" police raid at Prof Naseer's
residence and his five-hour detention. "This action was taken on the permission
of vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, resident officer Prof Dr Bashir
Ahmad and estate officer Abdul Shakoor," he added.
He said teachers had
always resisted police and other forces' interference on campuses and no
university administration had ever dared handing over campus to police even in
dictatorial regimes.
"The PUASA believes that the incumbent VC is using
indecent tactics against teachers to fulfill his nefarious designs," he said and
added that the incident had also left teachers and their families feeling
insecure on the campus.
Dr Salik said the PU administration had also
humiliated teachers to satisfy its ego. He said the administration victimised
psychology department chairperson and forced retirement of five teachers of
Centre for High Energy Physics and the Punjab University Law College (PULC)
principal in-charge. He said the association had always recorded its protest
against all such moves leading to teachers' humiliation.
Dr Salik also
alleged that the present administration was violating merit and posted its
favourites against different lucrative posts, including hostels superintendents
and wardens, as well as granting higher grade privileges to certain junior
teachers after ignoring seniors.
Holding the VC responsible for the
police action against Prof Naseer, PUASA office-bearers demanded that Prof
Kamran should immediately resign from his office.
Dr Salik said the
executive committee had called PUASA general body meeting at the Institute of
Chemical Engineering and Technology on Dec 18 to plan future strategy to handle
the issue.
Speaking at a separate news conference, PUTF leaders said the
PUASA president and general-secretary were distorting facts to gain political
mileage in the upcoming elections as well as protecting Islami Jamiat Tulaba's
`criminal' activities.Prof Dr Saeed Ahmad Nagra, Prof Dr Shaukat Ali, Prof Dr
Bashir Ahmad and Dr Aurangzeb Alamgir said the PUASA president and his
associates had soft corner for the IJT and they always protected its activists
even for their open wrongdoings.
Prof Nagra, who is also Hall Council
chairman, said an expelled student had thrown chairs on university teachers in
front of the VC and had his leg fractured while climbing over an Old Campus
wall.
Instead of condemning this act of IJT activist against senior
university teachers, he said, Jamaat-i-Islami leaders, who also backed incumbent
PUASA body, visited the injured student and demanded judicial inquiry into the
incident.
On the other hand, he said, none of the PUASA or JI leader
visited two students of PULC, who were shot at and injured by IJT activists –
one of whom was the son-in-law of Prof Naseer.
Saying that the PUASA did
not even issue a condemnation, Prof Nagra said it instead requisitioned the
general body meeting of the association. Prof Nagra said the PUASA leaders were
making it an issue in the name of teachers' respect and sanctity to cover up the
shooting case.
Prof Shaukat said the PUASA was never a representative
body of all university teachers and it must refrain from becoming a
representative of a student's organisation.The PUTF leaders said that the
university administration would itself protect the respect of Prof Naseer, if
any illegal action was taken against him.
They, however, asked Prof
Naseer to stop his near and dear ones from indulging in criminal activities and
rather use his influence to identify those who shot at innocent
students.
Prof Bashir said the police were looking for the whereabouts of
Dec 3 firing nominated accused Hafiz Farhan, the son-in-law of Prof Naseer. He
said the nature of the case was highly sensitive and the law-enforcing
authorities had their full jurisdiction to investigate and arrest those who were
nominated in the FIR lodged by the victim. "The university authorities and he
(Prof Bashir) himself have no involvement whatsoever in the case," he
said.
Prof Bashir, who is RO-I, said that Prof Naseer neither informed
nor sought any help from the university authorities. He, however, said the
university authorities would definitely like that the culprits were arrested and
brought to book. Dawn
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King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Ist convocation on December 25
Lahore: The first convocation of King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Lahore is scheduled to be
held on December 25, 2008. A KEMU spokesman in a press release here on Monday
said Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Zafarullah Khan would present report of the
university on the occasion. He said the MBBS, MS, MD and PhD students, who had
qualified from the university would be awarded degrees and the position holders
would be given medals.
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Centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management, Peshawar admission date changed
Peshawar: The centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management Monday rescheduled
the admission date for one-year postgraduate diploma and set December 18 for
interviews. The candidates would be interviewed at the Department of Geography,
UoP, added the communication. The News
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| Education News | | Updated: 23 May, 2012 |
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