FAISALABAD, Aug 30: The protest movement launched by the students of the Punjab Medical College entered the fourth day on Saturday.

They marched on city roads carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of their demands and against the managements of the Punjab University and the University of Health Sciences.

They staged a sit-in in front of the offices of the district Nazim and demanded his immediate intervention. They also chanted slogans against what they termed a callous decision of the government to affiliate the PMC with the UHS.

Nazim Zahid Nazir talked to the students outside his office and assured them that all out efforts would be made for the redressal of their grievances.

The protesters rejected the proposal of the Nazim to suspend their protest movement for some days.

Student leaders said some of their college-fellows had approached the Supreme Court which allowed them to take the MBBS examinations under the auspices of Punjab University. But the PU administration refused to do so.

They threatened that they would launch a massive protest movement in the city with the cooperation of students bodies of other institutions if the government failed to resolve the matter immediately.