KARACHI, May 24: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association on Wednesday condemned the torture of a lecturer, during exams duty, at the Government College for Women Khairpur by the Chairman, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Sukkur, and his guard, and demanded their immediate removal.

In a statement, the SPLA’s leaders, Prof Syed Raiz Ahsan, Prof Liaquat Aziz Solangi, Prof Manzoor Chishti, Prof Aga Khalid and others alleged that the Chairman of BISE Sukkur, Mehboob Shaikh, and his guard subjected a lecturer, Muhammad Bux Mandal, to violence and humiliated him in front of students.

Following the incident, teachers in four districts of Sindh including Sukkur, Khairpur, Noshehro Feroz and Ghotki boycotted the ongoing intermediate exams to protest the violence against their colleague.

They demanded immediate removal and arrest of the Sukkur board’s Chairman, Dr Mehboob Shaikh.—PPI