HYDERABAD, Aug 26: The Islami Jamiat-i-Tulba (IJT), Sindh, has rejected the recommendations of the federal education task force and announced to launch “save universities movement”.

Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, the provincial Nazim, IJT, Umar Idrees, severely criticised the implementation of the recommendations of the task force and termed this action unconstitutional and dictatorial.

He claimed that the majority of the members of the task force belonged to private sector universities who knew nothing at all about the working of the public universities.

He said this was the reason why the task force had converted the universities into an industry, and added that the doors of higher education would be permanently closed for the poor students.

He maintained that the military government had no legal or moral authority to implement the recommendations of the task force at the point of the gun.