March, 17 2005	Thursday	06 Safar 1426

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JHANG, March 16: Tension continued to grip major educational institutions for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, following a clash between college students and a security guard of a transport company in which three students were seriously injured. A group of students of the government degree college tried to board an Islamabad-bound bus (LSC-4141) of a private company on Saturday, but the driver did not stop the bus. The students chased the bus on some other vehicle and overtook it near Riwaz Bridge. When the enraged students tried to drag the driver out of the bus, the security guard of the bus, Feroz, opened fire on them, injuring Mansha, Tasawar Abbas and Irshad. The driver and the guard fled.

The injured were shifted to the DHQ hospital. In the meantime, the students torched the bus. Police dispersed the students. Later, a case was registered against bus driver, Amanullah and the guard.

On Monday, despite a holiday, a large number of students assembled in the college and held a rally demanding early arrest of the driver and the security guard. The protest was now joined by the students of the Ghazali Degree College, the Government Commerce College and the Government High School.

Meanwhile, the police have arrested both the driver and the guard, owing to which there were no rallies on Wednesday. However, the educational institutions remained gripped by tension, as the students boycotted their classes. Heavy contingents of police remained deployed outside the colleges and schools of the city to handle any untoward situation.

Meanwhile, a student, Mujahid Husain, who was returning to chak No 269 from the college, on a bus (FDL 2301) on Monday was thrashed by the bus driver following a minor quarrel. The driver also kept him in illegal confinement for several hours. A case has been registered against the driver and cleaner of the bus by the Mochiwala police.

SUSPENDED: District Police Officer Hamid Mukhtar has suspended from service a constable for not looking tidy and smoking a cigarette while on duty. Constable Abid Hussain, driver of the official vehicle of Massan police station, was spotted by the DPO on patrol while smoking a cigarette. The constable’s beard was also not properly shaved. Sources close to the constable said he had decided to grow a beard, so he was not cleanly shaved.