HYDERABAD, Feb 27: A large number of teachers of the Sindh Agriculture University held a general body meeting at the campus in Tandojam on Tuesday and took out a procession which marched from A. M. Shaikh auditorium to the vice-chancellor's secretariat.

Led by the president of the teachers' association, Dr Umeed Ali Buriro, they were protesting against the attack on the university by a mob on February 24.

The teachers demanded that the patronage of the assailants should be stopped and those who had masterminded the attack should be exposed.

They warned that any attack on the university would not be tolerated in future and called upon the authorities to take effective steps in this regard.

The teachers expressed surprise over the silence of the government and the conscientious people on such a grave issue.

They said that it was an irony that on the one hand the university had lost a student and, on the other, it was made a target.

They demanded that an inquiry should be held into the incident by a judge of the Sindh High Court and the attackers should be put in the dock.

They said that when the vehicles of a state minister and government functionaries were being torched and the university property destroyed, the police were hiding. They demanded compensation for torched private vehicles.

The teachers offered Fateha for the departed soul of the slain student, Majid Rajput.

The employees of the university and the agriculture research project also staged separate protest demonstrations against the terrorist attack on the two institutions and destruction of property and equipments valued at tens of millions of rupees.

Speaking on the occasion, Hussain Bux Veesar, Karam Punhoon, Mir Ghulam Hussain and others said that the attack on the university was made under a conspiracy in which hidden hands were involved.

They alleged that not only the people of Tandojam but trained terrorists from Hyderabad and Tando Allahyar also were involved in the attack.

They said not only academic activities but research activities were also seriously affected by the attack.