HYDERABAD, March 20: The Sindh University’s point bus drivers and employees blocked the Indus Highway on Tuesday by parking buses across the road in protest against attack on a driver and two canteen workers a day earlier by a group of students.

Driver Wali Mohammad Noohani and canteen workers Mohammad Qasim and his son Azam suffered serious injuries in the attack.

The drivers and employees later staged a sit-in outside the university’s administration block. They were also joined by the employees of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.

The varsity employees Ghulam Nabi, Habibullah Burfat and Yaqoob Noohani said that a group of students belonging to a student organisation had attacked and injured the staff bus driver and later in the day injured canteen workers when they refused to serve them until they cleared their debt.

They said that the injured employees had lodged an FIR at Jamshoro police station against the attackers but police were reluctant to arrest them.

They demanded that the police should arrest the attackers without any delay and provide protection to the employees. The protesters ended sit-in after Registrar Mohammad Saleh Rajar assured them that he would redress their grievances.

ISRA: Isra University on Tuesday finalised selection of candidates for admission to degree programmes in the faculty of computer and management sciences.

MUET: Prof Abdul Hakim Mallah and Prof Atta Mohammad Phul were elected as president and general secretary of the Mehran University Teachers Association, respectively, said election commissioner Prof Agha Zafarullah Khan Pathan on Tuesday.Prof Abdul Qadir Chang, Dr Taha Ali, Prof Ehsan Memon and Prof Mohammad Yaqoob Behan were elected unopposed as vice-president, joint secretary, treasurer and social secretary, respectively.