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Army officers appointment at Balochistan University
QUETTA, Nov 13, 2007: Many students of Government Law College temporarily
boycotted their exams on Monday in protest to alleged government indifference
towards their problems, including the demand for the removal of two retired
military officers appointed to key posts at the University of Balochistan.
The law students refused to sit in the second year annual examination
and also protested outside the law college. The students have criticised the
government for appointing a retired military officer as vice-chancellor of the
university and another as the director general of the human resource department
in the same university.
Earlier, the students had asked the government to
remove both the officers, failing which they would boycott the exams under the
platform of the Students' Action Committee. "Appointment of military officers
inside the educational institutions hampers the flow of free ideas," a
journalist, requesting anonymity, said.
Around a hundred
students attended Monday's boycott. They chanted slogans against the heads of
the university, of which the Law College is a subordinate institute. Among other
demands, the students wanted the government to release several of their fellow
students who had been arrested by police in different cases. Later, the college
management and students' leaders managed to temporarily settle their differences
and the students agreed to appear in the exams. Law College Prinicpal Naveed
Kasi said, " We have met some demands of the students. They have agreed to end
their strike temporarily and participate in the exams." Daily Times
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