PU murder: Jamiat pelts VC’s office with stones
Islami Jamiat Taliba (IJT) on Wednesday demonstrated in front of the office of the Punjab University’s (PU) vice chancellor (VC) and pelted it with stones, breaking some of the window panes.
They rejected administration’s claims that Awais Aqeel – who had been shot dead on campus on May 13 – was not a university student.
The IJT showed reporters Aqeel’s library card.
The card has his picture and identifies him as an LLB student at the university’s Law College.
Jamiat members claimed that Abrar Wattoo, whom they accused of killing Aqeel, was being protected by the administration.
A PU spokesman had said that Aqeel was not a “regular” student at the university.
He said that Aqeel had enrolled at the law college and sat for his LLB Part 1 examination in 2011 but had failed all exams.
He said that he had then applied for sitting supplementary exams.
IJT information secretary Malik Arif Hussain criticised the administration for issuing “misleading statements” instead of taking action against those responsible. “We gave a two-day ultimatum to the police to arrest the suspects,” he said. He said that some members had lost their temper and had then broken windows of the VC office.
Two Chemistry Department teachers later claimed that they had been beaten up by IJT members when they tried to persuade them to end the protest. Following the “assault”, the Academic Staff Association (ASA) announced that they would boycott classes from Thursday (today). ASA president Amir Sarwar demanded that all IJT nazims be expelled and that the IJT be banned.
Sarwar then said that the teachers would go to classes only if police provided them security.
Hussain denied that Jamiat members had beaten up or misbehaved with any teacher.
Vice Chancellor Prof Mujahid Kamran condemned the “attack” on the teachers. He described it as “the most shameful act in the history of Punjab University”.
He said that the matter had been brought to the notice of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 17th, 2012.
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IJT is the grieved party in the issue why should it be banned??? it always happens that a protest becomes violent and take contours of agitation, that's not something associated specifically to IJT i doubt the charges of beating two teachers, its a mere political gimmick on the part of ASA which is much servile to VC to save pu administration skin as per my information the accused ibrar watto was running a gang and holding complete sway at pu hostel no 16 while deceased awais aqeel ousted him and had hostel vacated from thugs, in retaliation watto first attacked the hostel and injured a student and now in second attempt managed to kill awais
punjab univesity establishment should banned ijt for always and students involved in terrorist activities shold be expelled and legal action asldo taken against reponsibles.pu establishment should pay more attention to hostels where ijt has more hold and misbehaveds with warden and other hostel authorities. specialy request to cm punjab pay attention this problem and proper action shold be taken against responsibleand save pu from terrorists and save future of 35000 thousand campus students ans lacs of off campus students>
that person accused for aqeel's murder should be arrested and trialed.. and university authority should put ban on activities of IJT. IJT is nothing more than a group of terrorist and harming the education in public universities.
All major public universities are suffering from terrorism at the hands of IJT. About time it is declared a terrorist organization and banned.