PESHAWAR, Jan 29: A local court on Saturday reserved its order on the bail application of two leaders of the Pukhtun Students Federation (PkSF) charged with sedition.

The court presided over by Judicial Magistrate Jamshed Khan Kundi fixed Jan 31 for pronouncing the order.

PkSF president Sardar Ahmad Yousafzai and PkSF's Peshawar University head Jawed Khan were charged with defiling the national flag, sedition and inducing students to take part in politics. An FIR was registered against them at the University Campus police station.

The accused had addressed a protest demonstration of students on Jan 12 at the Student Teacher Centre against the enhancement of university fees.

Advocates Abdul Lateef Afridi and Nasir Naeemkheli appeared for the applicants and argued that they were falsely implicated in the case as they were never involved in sedition.

Mr Afridi contended that neither the applicants had removed the national flag nor had they put it to torch. He said the applicants had only criticized the university administration for increasing the fee.

The lawyer said that a retired general had been serving as the vice-chancellor and alleged that he had been treating the students like enemy forces.

The counsel argued that the retired general did not simply know how to run the affairs of a university and added that he had been pressuring the students so that they did not raise voice for their rights.