GILGIT, Dec 5: The arrested student activists of the ISO have been released following negotiations with the local administration, police sources said on Friday.

The students and their leaders including the divisional president and general secretary of the Imamia Students Organization were arrested for protesting against the lack of facilities at their college.

The sources said the administration has agreed to provide furniture, books, lab equipment, teaching staff and transport to the colleges in Gilgit which were under the administrative control of the Karakuram International University.

The parents of the arrested students furnished undertaking that their children would abide by the college rules.