January 13, 2008	Sunday	Muharram 03, 1429

ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The Student Action Committee at a protest meeting in Karachi Company reiterated its demand for restoration of true democracy, withdrawal of the military from politics, abolition of class system of education and creation of a welfare state.

Representatives of Quaid-i-Azam University, International Islamic University, Punjab College of Commerce and other schools, colleges and universities participated in the meeting along with hundreds of citizens, says a press release issued on Saturday.

The SAC activists presented a short skit on the occasion depicting the plight of working people under the peril of inflation, violence and bad governance.

Speaking on the occasion, SAC leader Amna Mawaz said the bomb blast in Lahore in which 25 innocent people were killed indicated just how acute the crisis of the state had become.

She said the basic responsibility of any state was to protect the life of its citizens but in Pakistan the state was totally incapable of doing so. Even worse, the state was perpetrating terror on its own people in large parts of NWFP and Balochistan. She said the regime had lost all credibility and it was time for it to go if Pakistan was to emerge from the present crisis.