October 14, 2008	Tuesday	Shawwal 14, 1429

HYDERABAD, OCT 13: Dr Basheer Ahmed Shaikh resumed the charge of the Vice-Chancellor of Sindh Agriculture University on Monday. The varsity employees went on strike and staged a sit-in outside the vice chancellor’s block. They raised slogans against the vice-chancellor.

Leaders of the SAU employees Raza Mohammad Durrani, Mohammad Bux Rajpar, Nusrat Hussain Channa, Hussain Bux Veesar and others said that employees will observe indefinite strike.

The University Employees’ Federation announced that employees of all universities of Sindh will go on strike on Thursday. They were demanding the removal of vice-chancellor.

The JSSF activists also staged a protest demonstration against the vice chancellor.

BILL: Members of the National Assembly should pass child protection bill in the best interest of children, said speakers at the media consultative meeting organised by the Society for Projection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) in collaboration with Save the Children.

The meeting was organised at the press club here on Monday to mark the international day against corporal punishment in schools.

MPA Farheen Mughal, Sparc Protection Manager Kashif Bajeer and SPO Regional Director Mustafa Baloch said that incidents of gender violence and torturing of children were on the increase in schools, juvenile prisons and even in homes.