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| April 20, 2003 | Sunday | Safar 17, 1424 |
Students drive against MUO
LARKANA, April 19: By organizing a token hunger strike here on Saturday, the Sindh Students’ Alliance launched a movement against the proposed model university ordinance and privatization of educational institutions, rise in tuition fees, ban on student unions and interference of law enforcing agencies in educational institutions.
A group of activists of different student organizations observed the token hunger strike outside the local press club.
Talking to journalists on the occasion, SSA president Irshad Mughal and general secretary Qadir Channa said that frequent increase in tuition fees was depriving the poor students of their right to education.
They said that arrests of students in the Sindh University was aimed at aborting the struggle of the SSA for the rights of students.
They said that the SSA would soon file a petition in the Sindh High Court against what they called occupation of students’ hostels by the law enforcing agencies.
MPA and Larkana District Bar Association president Ayaz Soomro and the leaders of different political parties visited the hunger strike camp to endorse the demands of the students’ alliance.
HUNGER STRIKE: Different trade bodies and workers organizations on Saturday joined workers of the Shahdadkot Textile Mills who are observing hunger strike for the last five days.
At least 80 workers of various organizations joined the huger strike being observed outside the local press club against the liquidation of the Shahdadkot Textile Mills.
The protesters said the mill was being liquidated in violation of the rules of the privatization commission.
They pledged to continue their protest till acceptance of their demands.
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