KARACHI, Aug 23: Students belonging to the Islami Jamiat Talaba held a protest demonstration on Monday against alleged 'illegal' detention of students.
The protesters, carrying banners and placards in front of Karachi Press Club, shouted slogans against 'state-sponsored terrorism' at educational institutes.
They also chanted slogans against Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui and asked him to stop patronizing terrorists and rogue elements at educational institutes. Addressing at the protest demonstration, IJT Secretary General Osama Shafique alleged that the Sindh Home Department and police were supporting rogue elements and providing them shelter to carry out attacks on peaceful students at colleges and universities.
He alleged that torture cells had been established at the Aligarh Institute of Technology, the Sir University of Engineering and Technology and the Jinnah Polytechnic Institute where students abducted from other educational institutes were taken and subjected to inhuman torture.
"Sindh Home Department and Governor House are responsible for the existence of such torture cells," he charged. The IJT activist warned that if these torture cells were not eradicated and students were not provided protection, the responsibility of the consequences would solely lie with the government. - PPI
