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Students shout loud against emergency
LAHORE, Nov 08, 2007: Students and faculty members of the Lahore University
of Management Sciences (LUMS) and FAST-National University of Computer and
Emerging Sciences demonstrated on their campuses against the imposition of
emergency in Pakistan. The demonstrations were peaceful and were monitored by
the college administrations and the police.
The police cordoned off the
two universities and did not allow the protesters to step out. Police also beat
a few students at FAST.
Beaconhouse National University (BNU) students
are scheduled to observe today (Thursday) Black Day against the
emergency.
LUMS protest: About 800 LUMS students and faculty members
gathered at the Sports Complex and spoke against the emergency. The students
then marched around the campus shouting slogans against the government regime
and General Pervez Musharraf, the imposition of emergency and the promulgation
of anti-media ordinances.
They also displayed placards and banners
reading "LUMS Against Martial Law", "Go Musharraf Go" and "No to Martial
Law".
The protesters wanted to take the rally off campus, but university
teachers and vice chancellor Dr Zahoorul Hassan stopped them. The police had
cordoned off the university early morning and had warned that any protester who
stepped out would be beaten up.
LUMS authorities had also banned the
entry of unidentified people, including reporters, on campus. The police beat a
few reporters who insisted on wanting to go in. Students sat on the ground
inside the main gate with their mouths taped. Some students alleged that
undercover policemen were keeping an eye on the protestors. The LUMS security
team was also present.
LUMS students had also protested on Monday after
their teachers were arrested from a meeting to discuss the emergency held at the
office of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
FAST-NUCES: A large
number of FAST students protested on campus against the emergency. They shouted
anti-government and anti-Musharraf slogans. They also denounced the Provisional
Constitutional Order (PCO) and ordinances that clamped down on the
media.
The police cordoned off the university early morning. Senior
police officers entered the university and urged the administration to hand over
the protesting students. The police also kept the university's main gate closed.
After the protest, police seniors met the FAST administration and urged them to
give an undertaking that the university would not allow its students to hold
more protests.
IJT protest at public colleges: The Islami Jamiat Talaba
(IJT) also protested at public colleges against the emergency. They shouted
slogans against the emergency and hoisted black flags on the college buildings
as a sign of mourning.
Students of the Punjab University; Government
Science College, Wahdat Road; and Islamia College, Civil Lines, took to the
roads and briefly protested. They demanded Gen Musharraf step down and take off
his uniform. Daily Times
Reporters manhandled; pictures deleted in LUMS
LAHORE: Police on Wednesday forcefully stopped journalists from entering
the campus of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), manhandling
and torturing those who attempted to cross the varsity's entrance gate to
perform their duty.
LUMS students had invited media to cover a
demonstration inside the university against the imposition of emergency in the
country. When reporters, photographers and cameramen reached the university,
they were barred from entering the premises. Later, when the university security
personnel allowed journalists to enter the campus, police officials deployed
there told reporters to abstain from entering the university. Policemen also
started pushing journalists away from the gates. Police highhandedness did not
stop here as the station house officer of DHA police station himself came
forward and started pushing and shoving journalists. He threatened cameramen and
photographers that police would smash their equipment if they did not desist
from entering the university. The SHO also manhandled a reporter of an English
daily who was accompanied by a foreign journalist. He then dragged another
reporter of a local TV channel.
LUMS security people also nabbed a
photographer who had entered the university and was hiding after he heard of the
ongoing police action. Security personnel made him leave and police officials
deployed outside wasted no time in arresting him. They took him to DHA police
station and kept him in detention for over three hours. Later, he was released
after the intervention of senior journalists. Police also deleted the pictures
he took of the students' protest.
Security was also beefed up at the
university premises and students who did not have LUMS students' identity card
were not allowed to enter the varsity premises. Drivers who had come to pick up
LUMS students were dragged out of the vehicles and slapped by policemen. A
university employee who had gone out to meet an IT vendor, who could not enter
because of the police cordon, was picked up by police officials and taken to the
police station. The News
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Education News| Updated: 09 Jan, 2009 |
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