PESHAWAR, Dec 4: To press for the unification of the two parallel departments of management studies at the Peshawar University campus the students of the Institute of Management Sciences (IMS) held a meeting here on Monday threatening boycott of classes.

About 200 students, girls and boys, started their protest march from Peshawar Press Club and headed towards the governor’s house.

Their attempt to meet the governor was foiled by the police who stopped them from getting anywhere near the governor’s house.

Later on talking to Dawn, a group of IMS student stressed that they would not tolerate two department on the campus and vowed to continue their struggle until the unification of the Institute of Management Studies and Institute of Management Sciences. They said even the teachers shared their views.

Rejecting the recent announcement about granting of affiliation by the University of Peshawar to the Institute of Management Studies (IMS), they said that they did not need any such affiliation as they were already part of Peshawar University.

They also criticized the presence of police at the department and said that such tactics amounted to harassment.