KARACHI, Oct 4: Thousands of teachers and students from universities and colleges on Friday held protest rallies at the provincial capitals against the recommendations of the task force on higher education and the proposed model university ordinance.

In Karachi, police arrested 65 students and teachers, including women, when they tried to march towards the Governor’s House to deliver a memorandum.

The police resorted to use of tear-gas shells near the D.J. College, where hundreds of students and teachers had assembled before the march.

Thousands of teachers, doctors and students brought out rallies in a number of cities in the Punjab to protest against the proposed model university ordinance and constitution of boards of governors for schools, colleges and hospitals in the province.

The protesters gathered at the MAO College in Lahore, under the banner of a joint action committee of teachers and doctors.

A similar protest demonstration was also held in Peshawar by students and teachers, under the aegis of Muttahida Tulaba Mahaz and the Peshawar University Teachers Association.