March 12, 2008	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 3, 1429

HYDERABAD, March 11: Several students suffered injuries when two groups clashed with each other on the premises of Sindh University Jamshoro campus on Tuesday.

Reports said that the clash took place when a group of students stopped another group from staging protest at Zero Point. They were protesting against the republication of blasphemous cartoons by Danish media.

The attacking students accused the protesters of spreading extremism and demanded that they end the protest. This led to exchange of hot words and a clash between the two groups, leaving several students, whose names could not be ascertained, injured.

Later, activists of Jeay Sindh Students Federation including Surhia Sindhi, Qurban Mahar, Razzaq Shaikh staged a demonstration outside the press club and alleged that the university administration had used fundamentalists against their party after the JSSF announced celebrating culture day on March 15.

They accused police of opening fire on JSSF activists and said that two students Ali Soomro and Azam Mari were seriously injured in the clash.

The officer on duty at Jamshoro police station expressed his ignorance of the clash while the SHO said when he was reached on his cellphone, that someone did fire on a students rally but succeeded in escaping.

No case has been field at Jamshoro police station about the incident.

LONG MARCH: A group of 24 employees of the Sindh Agriculture University, who had started a long march on Monday from Tandojam in protest against the vice-chancellor of the university, reached Matiari on Tuesday.

The protesters will reach Garhi Khuda Bux after 12 days where they plan to observe hunger strike unto death against the vice-chancellor and his team.

The marchers’ leaders Hussain Bux Veesar, Karam Ali Punhoon, Shahmir Lochi and Ghulam Hyder alleged that the vice-chancellor and his team of retired people were destroying the university.

They complained that the university administration was not solving the genuine problems of the employees. The children of retired and expired employees of the university were denied jobs while the retired officials were being re-appointed in the university, they said.