May 16, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 10, 1429

HYDERABAD, May 15: The University of Sindh has issued show cause notices to all students nominated in the murder case of Abdul Nabi Brohi, a BSc third-year student of sociology, and directed them to submit their statements in writing within seven days.

The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the university’s Discipline Committee held here on Thursday.

The committee has also directed the students to appear before the committee in its next meeting on May 22 to record their statements failing of which decisions will be taken in their absence.

Meanwhile, the acting vice-chancellor of the University of Sindh, Dr Raffia Ahmed Shaikh, has visited the boy’s hostel and inspected the place of the incident.

She inquired about details of the incident from the staff and officials of the hostel.

Sindh University Registrar Mohammad Saleh Rajar and other officials accompanied the acting vice-chancellor.

A high level meeting was also convened which was presided over by the acting vice-chancellor. Deans of all faculties, registrar, hostel provost, controller of examinations, professor incharge of transport and other officials attended the meeting.

The meeting briefed the deans about the situation and measures taken for the future on the campus.

The meeting also discussed security measures on the campus from May 19, when the semester examinations will be resumed.

The activists of Sindh People’s Students Federation, Quaid-i-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology unit staged a demonstration outside the press club against the killing of a student at Sindh University Jamshoro here on Thursday, our Nawabshah correspondent reports.

They claimed that the student killed in the clash was their party worker.

The protesters were carrying placards and were raising slogans for the arrest of killers. They held the university administration responsible for the clash.

The leaders of Jamiat Tulaba-i-Islam (JTI), Larkana chapter, demanded that the government should arrest the killers of Abdul Nabi Brohi, a student of University of Sindh, our Larkana correspondent reports.

They called for taking effective measures to stop such incidents from happening in the future and urged the government to solve the problems of the students of Sindh University, MUET and SAU.