BAHAWALPUR: A large number of female students of the Government Sadiq College, Bahawalpur, took to streets against changing the name of their institution by dropping the word university.

The students boycotted their classes and reached the Bahawalpur Press Club after holding a march on the University Road. The students held banners and placards inscribed with their demands to restore the name by adding university back to its name.

On the occasion, the protesters, while welcoming the measures taken by Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz for the welfare of students, particularly for promoting girls’ education in the province, opined that the Honhaar scholarships, laptops and scooties were laudable steps.

They demanded that the chief minister should reinstate the name of their institution, otherwise they would be forced to leave the Government Sadiq College, Bahawalpur and seek admission at colleges nearest to their homes across different areas of Bahawalpur and Lodhran districts.

MAN HELD: The Sammsatta police claimed to have arrested a man for allegedly torturing his daughter-in-law, a Philippines national, and shifted the victim to Darul Aman on Wednesday.

According to the police, Zoya had married Sikandar about ten months ago at mauza Nowshehra Jadid. She alleged that her husband, in connivance with her father-in-law Sabir Hussain, had tortured her and dragged her from her hair.

In her complaint to the police, she claimed that some neighbours rescued her from their torture and helped her to seek police help.

The police, after producing her in a local court, shifted her to the Darul Aman on Wednesday and also contacted her embassy as in her statement she wished to return back to her country.

Police claimed to have arrested her father-in-law while her husband was absconding.

Published in Dawn, November 12th, 2026