KOHAT: Office-bearers of student unions here on Thursday alleged that the administration of Kohat University of Science and Technology (Kust) did not allow the students to hold a discussion session with Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan during his visit to the varsity on Wednesday.

They said that the students were eager to talk to the PTI chief and discuss with him national political issues, but the administration did not allow them to do so, which angered them.

The students also criticised their colleagues who had planned to hold a protest demonstration on the visit of Imran Khan to the university, but they disappeared after the police warned them of arrest if any unrest was created on the campus.

Sources said that Imran Khan expressed his displeasure over the fact that the post of vice-chancellor of the university was lying vacant for the last 18 months.

They said that the PTI chief directed the authorities concerned to fill the post immediately.

Meanwhile, Kohat University of Science and Technology assistant registrar Faisal Khan submitted an application with the police to register an attempted murder case against acting registrar Azad Khattak for threatening him with life on Thursday.

When contacted, SHO Fazal Awan of Jarma police station said that Faisal Khan had met him in the vice-chancellor’s office on Wednesday and asked him to arrest the acting registrar for hurling threats at him.

KILLED: A man was killed and two other people were injured when two trucks collided on the Indus Highway here on Thursday.

Eyewitnesses said that a mini-truck (Peshawar-7509) and a truck (Z-8445) had a head-on collision.

As a result, one Raqeebullah sitting in the mini-truck was killed, while Naimatullah and Vaqas Khan were injured. They belonged to Bannu.

The police shifted the body and injured to the KDA hospital.

The Jarma police registered the case and have started search for the truck driver.

Published in Dawn, March 25th, 2016