Life lost to violence: SU student laid to rest as police starts search for suspects
Teachers’ association has demanded an inquiry into the murder.
HYDERABAD:
The Sindh University (SU) student, who was shot dead at the campus on Wednesday, was laid to rest on Thursday as the police began the hunt for the four suspects.
Deen Muhammad Dal was killed during an attack on a group of students at the Faculty of Arts, allegedly by students affiliated with political parties. Two other undergraduate students, Kamran Lashari and Abdul Ghafoor Noohani, were also shot multiple bullets in the abdomen but they survived the attack.
Dal, a second-year student at the information technology department and a Hafiz-e-Quran, belonged to the Mehar taluka of Dadu district. His family recently shifted to Odero Lal town in Matiari district where his father, Khizar Hassan Dal, runs a small cafe. Khizar denied his son’s affiliation with any political party as alleged by the Jeay Sindh Student Federation (JSSF). “We sent him to the university to learn, not to pick fights.”
Dal was buried in a local graveyard amid mourning and a two-day strike at the town. The funeral was attended by the SU acting vice-chancellor, Dr Parveen Shah, along with other faculty members and leaders of the Sindhi nationalist parties.
Dal’s brother, Khalid Hassan Dal, has registered an FIR at the Jamshoro police station. Commerce department’s student Zahoor Ahmed Malhan, economics department’s student Ghulam Dastgir alias Huban Chandio, and Imam Baksh alias Jhando Brohi along with Imran Sangro of the political science department, have been nominated.
According to SHO Muhammad Suleman Jaiser, the suspects have escaped from Jamshoro. Police will conduct raids in Larkana and Ghotki, the districts of the suspects’ origins.
Meanwhile academic activities, which resumed on March 6 after a two-month teaching boycott, did not take place on Thursday.
Boycott ends, protests continue
The SU Teachers’ Association (SUTA) held a protest rally and sit-in at the railway crossing in Jamshoro.
They demanded a judicial investigation of the student’s killing by the same judge who is conducting the inquiry of Prof. (retd) Bashid Ahmed Channar’s murder on January 2. He was the adviser for student affairs.
“Though we have ended the complete teaching boycott due to the demands of civil society, students and parents, the struggle for our demands will continue until accepted,” said SUTA’s president, Dr Azhar Ali Shah.
The association has asked for the removal of the vice-chancellor Prof. Dr Nazir A Mughal, judicial investigation of Channar’s killing, lifting of the ban on student unions and removing police and rangers from the campus.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 9th, 2012.
The Sindh University (SU) student, who was shot dead at the campus on Wednesday, was laid to rest on Thursday as the police began the hunt for the four suspects.
Deen Muhammad Dal was killed during an attack on a group of students at the Faculty of Arts, allegedly by students affiliated with political parties. Two other undergraduate students, Kamran Lashari and Abdul Ghafoor Noohani, were also shot multiple bullets in the abdomen but they survived the attack.
Dal, a second-year student at the information technology department and a Hafiz-e-Quran, belonged to the Mehar taluka of Dadu district. His family recently shifted to Odero Lal town in Matiari district where his father, Khizar Hassan Dal, runs a small cafe. Khizar denied his son’s affiliation with any political party as alleged by the Jeay Sindh Student Federation (JSSF). “We sent him to the university to learn, not to pick fights.”
Dal was buried in a local graveyard amid mourning and a two-day strike at the town. The funeral was attended by the SU acting vice-chancellor, Dr Parveen Shah, along with other faculty members and leaders of the Sindhi nationalist parties.
Dal’s brother, Khalid Hassan Dal, has registered an FIR at the Jamshoro police station. Commerce department’s student Zahoor Ahmed Malhan, economics department’s student Ghulam Dastgir alias Huban Chandio, and Imam Baksh alias Jhando Brohi along with Imran Sangro of the political science department, have been nominated.
According to SHO Muhammad Suleman Jaiser, the suspects have escaped from Jamshoro. Police will conduct raids in Larkana and Ghotki, the districts of the suspects’ origins.
Meanwhile academic activities, which resumed on March 6 after a two-month teaching boycott, did not take place on Thursday.
Boycott ends, protests continue
The SU Teachers’ Association (SUTA) held a protest rally and sit-in at the railway crossing in Jamshoro.
They demanded a judicial investigation of the student’s killing by the same judge who is conducting the inquiry of Prof. (retd) Bashid Ahmed Channar’s murder on January 2. He was the adviser for student affairs.
“Though we have ended the complete teaching boycott due to the demands of civil society, students and parents, the struggle for our demands will continue until accepted,” said SUTA’s president, Dr Azhar Ali Shah.
The association has asked for the removal of the vice-chancellor Prof. Dr Nazir A Mughal, judicial investigation of Channar’s killing, lifting of the ban on student unions and removing police and rangers from the campus.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 9th, 2012.