July 21, 2008	Monday	Rajab 17, 1429

HYDERABAD, July 20: A large number of employees of the Sindh Agriculture University held a demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday, demanding removal of the university’s vice-chancellor Dr Basheer Ahmed Shaikh.

Leaders of SAU Employees Action Committee Hussain Bux Veesar, Karam Ali Punhoon and Syed Abdul Majeed said that Dr Shaikh whose tenure was extended after retirement and his team of retired officials had failed to improve the university’s conditions.

They accused the VC, his sons and retired officials hired by the VC of corruption and alleged that Dr Shaikh and his team had filled their own coffers at the cost of the university.

They alleged that Mr Shaikh had destroyed Shah Latif University when he was the varsity’s vice-chancellor and now he was bent on destroying the Agriculture University.

They said that the employees had signed many agreements with the VC after protests but the administration had never honoured them. They held the VC responsible for the continued protest and demanded his removal.

SNF: A group of Sindh National Front activists staged a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday in protest against registration of a case against their colleagues, Noor Nabi Halepoto and Salar Burfat, at Jamshoro police station.

SNF leaders Muzaffar Sehto, Pervez Solangi and Shafiq Solangi said that the case was false. Their colleagues had been implicated in it after they raised voice against land grabbers, they said.

They said that police were conducting raids on the residences of their colleagues and warned that if the case was not withdrawn they would launch a movement throughout the province.