Sindh University Jamshoro students boycott exams
Students at SU boycott exams
Hyderabad, June 11: Over 1,500 students of the Sindh University Jamshoro campus
marched out of their hostels late on Wednesday and staged a sit-in on the Indus
Highway for three hours in protest against police firing on the STP rally in
Karachi, killing three activists. A heavy contingent of Jamshoro
district police reached the spot and remained there. Students called off the
strike voluntarily after three hours while announcing mourning of seven days for
those killed by police. The students were led by Safdar Tunio, Ali
Mohammad Burfat and Awais Bachkani. Protesters raised slogans against the Sindh
government and the influx of internally displaced persons into Sindh.
They also announced boycott of the semester examinations paper scheduled
for Thursday (today). The university postponed Wednesday's paper as the
activists did not allow the plying of point buses. A source in the
university said that the students had demanded that they should be provided
university point buses for going to Karachi to take part in the STP rally but
the university administration refused the request. Neither teachers nor students
nor employees could reach the campus for want of point buses. Meanwhile,
Awami Tehrik leaders condemned the killing of three STP workers by Karachi police.
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SALU teachers hold protest
Khairpur: Teachers held protest in the Shah Abdul Latif University on
Wednesday in response to a call for protest given by the Federation of
All-Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association. According to a
press release, the president of the university's teachers association Prof,
Abdul Latif Memon and general secretary Syed Muqeem Shah demanded an end to
interference by Higher Education Commission in the universities' affairs.
They said that in-service teachers should be appointed as vice
chancellors in all the public sector universities instead of retired ones.
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Govt urged to appoint VC for BB university
Larkana: Leaders of the Chandka Teachers Association (CTA), Pakistan
Medical Association (PMA) and paramedics association urged the government on
Wednesday to appoint vice-chancellor for the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical
University and release funds to make the university functional. Dr
Zaffar Pirzado, Dr Afshar Bhutto, presidents of CTA and PMA and senior
professors led a big procession, which took to the streets after oath-taking
ceremony of CTA. The senior faculty members of the college and a large number of
paramedics assembled outside the press club after marching on the main roads and
held a demonstration. Talking to journalists, leaders of the CTA, PMA
and paramedics associations said that even after passage of the bill for the
establishment of the university the government had failed to make arrangements
for making the university operational. They said that neither land had
been purchased nor vice-chancellor had been appointed yet. They called
for allocating a handsome amount for the university in the upcoming budget. The
federal and provincial governments had not allocated any funds for the
university despite making commitments, they said. They said that the
government had released Rs6 billion for the uplift of Dow University of Medical
and Sciences Karachi but was reluctant to allocate funds for the only medical
university of upper Sindh. They called for undertaking major repairs at
the CMC staff colony and giving 30 per cent to 20 per cent quota in jobs in the
university to the sons' of the paramedics and teachers, respectively. Dr
Badar Junejo, general secretary of PMA's Larkana chapter, and Sobdar Shaikh,
president of paramedics association, said that their peaceful struggle would
continue till the appointment of vice-chancellor and other skeleton staff. Dawn
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Shah Latif varsity signs
Khairpur: The Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU), Khairpur, signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Research Institute for
Humanity and Nature (RIHN) of Kyoto, Japan, to carry out research on
archaeological sites, a SALU official said here on Tuesday. SALU
Department of Archeology Chairman Qasid Hussain Mallah said he, along
with SALU Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Nilofer Shaikh, had signed the
MoU with the RIHN. He said scholars and researchers of Japan would
visit various archaeological sites here. Similarly, the SALU
scholars would visit the archaeological sites of Japan to carry out
research and prepare research papers and articles. He said the
research-oriented data would be available to everyone. He termed
the signing of the MoU a great achievement of the SALU, saying it would
bring changes to research methodology and the Japanese and SALU
scholars would exchange their research-based ideas in order to promote
archaeological sites. He said he had finished his research work on 150
archaeological sites. The News
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