MUZAFFARABAD, March 8: Activists of Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) held a rally here on Friday to protest the attack on their two colleagues by a students’ organization and demanded that the authorities should arrest and punish the attackers.

The rally, many of whose participants were carrying sticks, was taken out from the IJT office on Eidgah Road and after taking round of the old campus of the university it ended at the Bank Road, where the leaders spoke.

IJT activists, Zaheer Ahmad and Ehsanur Rashid, relatives of AJK Jamaat-i-Islami chief Abdur Rashid Turabi, were injured on Thursday after being beaten up and fired upon allegedly by some activists of the People’s Students Federation (PSF) at the Bank Road.

The IJT members were riding a motorcycle when they came under attack in the presence of police. Zaheer received two bullets in his right leg besides sustaining a dagger wound in the buttock and was hospitalized while Ehsan received minor wounds.

Tension between the groups was brewing since Feb 18 when the PSF organized a musical show in the university auditorium on the old campus.

The IJT had opposed the programme.