KARACHI, Nov 28: The Karachi University Teachers Society (KUTS) and the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) held a joint demonstration at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday against the termination of president PMA Dr Yasmeen Rashid, President PPLA Prof Nazim Hasnain and six other office-bearers of the PPLA.

The protesters were holding placards and raising slogans against the termination of the office-bearers of the Joint Action Committee, says a press release by KUTS.

Speaking on the occasion, secretary KUTS Dr Riaz Ahmed expressed solidarity with the teachers and doctors in Punjab in their struggle against “anti-health and anti-education” policies of the government.

He said that measures by the governor Punjab to suppress teachers and doctors against denationalization and the Model University Ordinance would not succeed, and the government would be forced to withdraw the so-called reforms and terminations.

Ayub Qureshi of the Pakistan Trade Union Federation slammed the policies of the government “aimed at targeting the deprived section of the society”.

President SPLA Prof Athar Hussain vowed to continue the struggle against the ordinance and denationalization policies and demanded that the terminated teachers and doctors of Punjab be reinstated immediately.—PPI