KARACHI, Nov 23: The coordination committee of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has condemned the incident of manhandling of a professor of the University of Karachi by certain persons and demanded of the Sindh governor and the KU vice-chancellor to order probe into the incident and those found involved should be given exemplary punishment.
The committee, in a statement, said that teachers were an important and respectable section of the society and giving them due respect was obligatory not only on students but on people from all walks of life and those who found involved in manhandling of teacher did not deserve any leniency.
APMSO: The All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organization (APMSO) has also condemned the incident. In a joint statement in charge of the APMSO central ad-hoc committee Tahir Yusuf and its members have flayed targeting of the professor of geology department by unknown persons.
They said that no one could deny the importance of teachers in the society and Islam had accorded a high status to teachers. Therefore any one committing such a crime against a teacher did not deserved to be called a human being.
They demanded of the KU vice-chancellor and the KU authorities to take concrete measures to ensure protection of the teachers and students in the varsity and those involved in the shameful act of torturing teachers should be arrested at the earliest and be given severe punishment.
