FAISALABAD, Nov 18: The district government and the Joint Action Committee could not make any headway on Monday to end the ongoing tension in the educational and health institutions here.

Sources said the JAC representatives demanded immediate withdrawal of the cases registered against their leaders and activists and release of all those who were arrested. But the government officials refused to do so.

Sixteen people were injured when a rally of students and teachers was baton-charged outside the GC University on Nov 14.

The baton charge had forced hundreds of stampeded students to take refuge in the varsity class rooms. Police teams had entered the campus and arrested over three dozen students from different rooms and sections of the varsity who were shifted to Gulberg police station.

At present, the arrested student are on judicial remand. The are Zeeshan Saleem of Razaabad, Muhammad Tanveer of Sargodha Road, Syed Ali Awan of Hajiabad, Rana Furqan Haider of Thikriwala, Naveed Ahmed of Hajiabad, Muhammad Umair of Chak No 115 RB, Mohsin Iqbal of Chak No 56 JB, Zahid Jamil of Gulshan Colony and Muhammad Usman of Gulberg.

Cases have been registered against Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association’s senior vice-president Chaudhry Abdul Khaliq Nadeem, JAC office-bearers Ziaullah Randhawa, Jawed Aslam Bajwa, Shahid Mahmood and Zain bin Umer.

After failure of the talks, the JAC decided that doctors, teachers and students would hold demonstration on daily basis outside different educational institutions and hospitals.

The JAC office-bearers also vowed to continue their protest till the withdrawal of the decision to constitute boards of governors for health and educational institutions.

The said no BoGs has provided any relief instead the costs of services have increased manifold. They also alleged that the BoGs were constituted at the behest of private sector which wanted to grab the precious properties of colleges and hospitals.

They also threatened that in case police tried to disrupt the peaceful protest movement of the teachers and students again, they would resist strongly.