DERA GHAZI KHAN: Civil Lines police arrested on Wednesday District Council member Tahir Buzdar on the complaint of the Ghazi University administration.

Mr Buzdar was leading a students’ movement demanding appointment of a permanent vice chancellor for the university.

Mr Buzdar had emerged the representative of youth in recent weeks after he had set up a students’ camp to force the government to arrange a full-time vice-chancellor for the university. Police arrested him on the report of the administration of the Ghazi University.

Ghazi University Registrar Shoaib Ahmed told Dawn Tahir Buzdar had been rusticated for his misconduct. He said that former student was tarnishing the image of the university and the image of vice-chancellor of the Islamia University, Bahawalpur, who holds the additional charge of Ghazi University.

The university has been without a permanent vice-chancellor since its inception in June 2014.

Students at a camp said their movement could not be stopped by the arrest of their leader.

Civil Lines Station House Officer Shakeel Bokhari said Mr Buzdar had been already booked for disrupting the camp of some students on Oct 24, 2017 while on Wednesday police received a complaint from the administration of the Ghazi University that he was breaching the discipline of the university by forcing the students to boycott classes.

HASH SEIZED: Border Military Police in Rakhi Guaj tribal area of Tuman Leghari foiled an attempt to smuggle a huge cache of hashish into Punjab from Balochsitan vthrough a car and arrested the driver on Wednesday.

The police intercepted the car during necessary checking and found packets of hashish in the car.

Police said they seized 60 kilograms of hashish from the car at Rakhi Guaj check post.

The driver was identified as Asghar.

Published in Dawn, March 29th, 2018