HYDERABAD, March 25: The activists of the Sindhi Shagird Tehrik, student wing of Awami Tehrik, staged a demonstration and a token hunger strike outside the press club on Sunday in protest against the new admission policy announce by the Dow Medical University of Karachi.

Students from Sindh University, Mehran University, LUMHS and Sindh Law College participated in the demonstration.

The SST’s central president Arbab Janjh said while addressing the demonstration that the Dow Medical University and other higher seats of learning in Karachi had virtually been declared no-go-areas for Sindhi students.

He said that the Dow university’s new admission policy clearly stated that only the students who had passed intermediate from a Karachi college or whose parents possessed Karachi’s domicile could seek admission to the university.

He said that the move was part of a conspiracy to deprive Sindhi students from seeking admission to the higher seats of learning in Karachi.

He demanded that the Dow university should cancel its new admission policy and the government should raise admission quota for Sindhi students in all the higher seats of learning in Karachi.

The people who were raising the slogans of Shah Latif wearing Sindhi Ajraks and caps were demolishing Sindhi villages in Karachi and other big cities and trying to convert indigenous population into a minority by settling outsiders in their place, he said.