KARACHI, April 4: Academic and non-academic activities resumed after ten consecutive days on Wednesday at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal campus of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology.

Teaching was badly affected as two members of a students’ organization misbehaved with a lab assistant and woman lecturer during examinations. In protest, the teaching and non-teaching staff stayed away from academic and non-academic activities.

Students of the Gulshan campus took to the streets and staged a violent protest against the administration for failing to resume their teaching classes and normalise the situation.

They lit bonfires and blocked main University Road on Tuesday for hours. Police and law-enforcers resorted to aerial firing and baton-charged the protesting students to disperse them and opened the road for traffic.

Although the teaching process resumed on Wednesday, student attendance was thin.