HYDERABAD: Tension between student wings of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and Sindh Taraqqi-Pasand Party (STP) subsided on Monday when heads of the two political parties held a telephonic conversation and sorted out issues amicably.

STP chairman Dr Qadir Magsi spoke to JI emir Sirajul Haq to discuss a recent clash at the Inter-national Islamic University, Islamabad, between activists of the rival student groups which had caused the tension. The two leaders agreed to play their role in ensuring a peaceful settlement.

The JI emir welcomed STP chief’s gesture and the latter thanked the former for his positive response, according to a statement issued by the STP.

The two sides formed a committee comprising JI’s former MNA Mian Aslam and STP’s senior vice chairman Jam Abdul Fatah Samejo and Dr Ahmed Noonari.

It would meet the university students involved in the clash, it said, adding that both sides decided to withdraw applications for the registration of cases against each other’s activists.

Published in Dawn, December 6th, 2022