LAHORE, Nov 15: The Islami Jamiat Tulaba, Pakistan, investigation committee on Thursday suspended membership of its 17 workers on charges of manhandling PTI chief Imran Khan and media people on the Punjab University New Campus on Wednesday.

After reviewing the manhandling episode, the IJT committee released its initial report and decided to take punitive action against all other persons who manhandled Khan. The committee will present its detailed investigation report to the IJT central shoora.

The 17 IJT members, whose membership has been suspended, are; Institute of Education and Research’s Ziaur Rehman, Zeeshan Khurram, Farooq Ahmad and Rizwan Aslam; Hailey College’s Faisal Javed, Muhammad Aziz, Mustafa, Shakeel, Kashif Shah, Nadeem Ahmad and Khurram Khan; Law College’s Junaid Ali and Khizar Hayat; Geology’s Shamsul Zaman; Physics’ Kaleem; Institute of Chemistry’s Asghar Ali and Centre for High Energy Physics’ Imran.

Meanwhile, it is learnt that IJT’s central shoora held its meeting and reportedly asked IJT Nazim-i-Aala Nasrullah Goraya and PU IJT Nazim Muhammad Ayub to resign while accepting their fault in mishandling Khan’s visit to the New Campus. —Staff Reporter