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U buses' drivers block highway
HYDERABAD, March 21(Dawn): The Sindh University's point bus drivers and
employees blocked the Indus Highway on Tuesday by parking buses across the road
in protest against attack on a driver and two canteen workers a day earlier by a
group of students.
Driver Wali Mohammad Noohani and canteen workers
Mohammad Qasim and his son Azam suffered serious injuries in the
attack.
The drivers and employees later staged a sit-in outside the
university's administration block. They were also joined by the employees of the
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.
The varsity employees
Ghulam Nabi, Habibullah Burfat and Yaqoob Noohani said that a group of students
belonging to a student organisation had attacked and injured the staff bus
driver and later in the day injured canteen workers when they refused to serve
them until they cleared their debt.
They said that the injured employees
had lodged an FIR at Jamshoro police station against the attackers but police
were reluctant to arrest them.
They demanded that the police should
arrest the attackers without any delay and provide protection to the employees.
The protesters ended sit-in after Registrar Mohammad Saleh Rajar assured them
that he would redress their grievances.
ISRA: Isra University on Tuesday
finalised selection of candidates for admission to degree programmes in the
faculty of computer and management sciences.
MUET: Prof Abdul
Hakim Mallah and Prof Atta Mohammad Phul were elected as president and general
secretary of the Mehran University Teachers Association, respectively, said
election commissioner Prof Agha Zafarullah Khan Pathan on Tuesday.Prof Abdul
Qadir Chang, Dr Taha Ali, Prof Ehsan Memon and Prof Mohammad Yaqoob Behan were
elected unopposed as vice-president, joint secretary, treasurer and social
secretary, respectively.
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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