August 29, 2008	Friday	Sha'aban 26, 1429

HYDERABAD, Aug 28: Sindh Agriculture Forum president Noor Mohammad Nizamani has demanded that Sindh Agriculture University should be reopened to enable thousands of students to resume their studies.

It was a shame that the second largest agriculture university in Pakistan had been closed for the past two months just because of a handful of employees, who want unjust favours from the university, Nizamani said.

In a statement faxed to Dawn here on Thursday, he said that the agricultural community of Sindh cannot stand idle at the closure of this institution of higher learning and the suffering of thousands of its students and research fellows.

He claimed that the SAU and other agriculture research institutions around its campus had greatly contributed to the development of agriculture in Sindh.

Mr Nizamani was of the view that it is about time that people of Sindh should stand up and support the cause of education at this university.