Education: Students boycott exams in faculty protest

Hundreds of students stage demonstration in protest against the sacking of two professors.

LAHORE: Hundreds of students of the University of Education, Township, boycotted their exams and staged a demonstration in protest against the sacking of two professors on Tuesday.

The students will protest in front of the Punjab Assembly hall at 11am today after the acting vice chancellor refused their request that the university restore Dr Anwaarul Rehman Pasha as director of science and technology and his wife Dr Shaheen Pasha, said Waqas Iftikhar, information secretary of the Insaf Students Federation. He said that the exam boycott would continue.

The students blocked College Road in Township with burning tyres for almost four hours on Tuesday morning. The police were called in and the protesters left the road at noon. Then in the university, students in the exam hall tore up their answer sheets. They later gathered outside the office of acting vice chancellor Farhat Saleem and chanted slogans against her.

Saleem was not available for comment.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 19^th,  2011.