January 18, 2006	Wednesday	Zilhaj 17, 1426

KARACHI, Jan 17: A large number of students belonging to the Islami Jamiat Talaba on Monday held a protest demonstration in front of the Karachi Press Club against abduction, torture and subjecting to violence some of their colleagues at the Govt SM Arts College on Tuesday.

Carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans against activists of the All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organization (APMSO) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), they chanted slogans against those destroying peace in Karachi’s academic institutions.

The protesting IJT workers declared the MQM and the APMSO as “groups of notorious terrorists” and demanded immediate removal of the Sindh governor and Sindh home minister, alleging them of patronizing the terrorists of their party.

Addressing the protestors, an IJT office bearer, Wasif Aziz, said armed APMSO activists attacked IJT workers in the presence of police at the SM Arts College on Tuesday morning and abducted two of them, whose whereabouts were still unknown.

He said on one hand, the MQM was “shedding crocodile tears” on the Balochistan operation and atrocities against innocent people, while and on the other, its armed terrorists were subjecting students and teachers to violence in connivance with the police.

The IJT leader also criticized the police and other law enforcing agencies for giving a free hand to the MQM and APMSO and “facilitating them” in torturing IJT workers.

He demanded the chief minister to react on this lawlessness at educational institutions and take stern action against the terrorists and police otherwise he would be remembered as a disgraced chief minister in the history of Sindh.—PPI