HYDERABAD, Oct 31: A large number of students of Sindh University belonging to the Sindh National Students Front staged a demonstration outside the press club on Wednesday in protest against incidents of mobile snatching in the campus area and to demand more buses.

Addressing the protesters, the central president of the front, Khadim Hussain Unnar, said that criminal elements from outside were roaming about freely in the campus and depriving students of mobile phones and cash. The students were paying heavy fees but the university had failed to provide them transport, he said.

He said the students had to use crowded private buses and pick-ups to reach the campus and they often missed lectures. Whenever students complained about shortage of point buses, they were threatened with dire consequences by the transport officer.

A spokesman for the university said that a group of students had staged a demonstration at the university point zero seeking new point buses on market route.

He said that the professor in charge of transport informed the students that the university 10 more buses would be made available within a month.