CHITRAL: The students of Government College, Chitral, on Saturday took out a procession against the principal for expelling 173 students without any solid reason.

Led by the student leaders, including Maqsoodur Rahman, Asif Ali Shah, Nazir Ahmed, Taslim Khan and others, the protesters converged at the Chitral Press Club where they highlighted their problems while addressing a news conference.

The students alleged that the principal was running the college on his own personal whims and had expelled a large number of students charging them with not attending the required number of lectures during the winter vacations.

The protesters complained that when they approached the principal to explain their viewpoint, he abused them and used harsh language against them. They said that students of three other colleges in the district were not expelled but given a chance to make up for the missed lectures during the classes continuing till the first week of May.

The students said that winter vacations in Chitral divided the academic year into two halves and that it was quite irrational on part of the principal to expel the students before the start of the second half of the academic session.

They said that 50 per cent of syllabus was yet to be covered in the college as the principal had no control over teachers, and mass expulsion of students from college was an attempt to conceal his own weakness and incapacity.

The student leaders gave a three-day deadline to the provincial government to remove the principal and restore the expelled students after which they would resort to extreme steps.

Published in Dawn March 15th , 2015

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