Protest: Students condemn harassment of their teacher

DERA GHAZI KHAN:

Students of Ghazi University in Dera Ghazi Khan held a demonstration on Wednesday against two professors who allegedly harassed a woman head of department.

Hundreds of students participated in a rally from the university to College Chowk and refused to attend their classes. They shouted slogans against the members of the VC Committee, who had allegedly harassed the woman instructor, and demanded that they be transferred without delay.

Students told journalists that the professors, members of the VC committee, had called Dr Shehzadi Mahpara, head of the Agriculture Department, to their office and had misbehaved with her. They said they had slapped her and used foul language. “Dr Mahpara recorded the altercation on her phone but the instructors snatched it from her,” one of the protesters said. Civil Lines police have a registered a case on Dr Mahpara’s complaint.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th, 2015.