HYDERABAD, March 14: Academic and administrative activities at Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam were suspended because of the strike by employees which entered into 12th consecutive day on Friday.

Varsity employees staged a sit-in outside the Vice- Chancellor’s Secretariat to press for acceptance of demands. They accused the VC of trying to destroy university by re-appointing around two dozen retired officers.

Leaders like Karam Ali Punhoon, Mohammad Shahmir Lochi, Ghulam Haider Joyo and Mohammad Ali Rustamani said the VC and his team were destroying resources and employees wanted to save the institution.

They said teachers, students and employees were fed up with the VC who had been granted extension in tenure and re-appointment of many retired officials, while keeping aside their problems.The 22 employees led by Hussain Bux Veesar staging long march from Tandojam to Garhi Khuda Bux where they will stage hunger strike unto death at the grave of Benazir Bhutto, arrived at Sakrand on Friday.

Students demonstrated outside the Secretariat and staged sit-in on the Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas Road.

They were protesting re-appointment of retired employees and registration of criminal case at Tandojam police station against two student leaders Doolah Darya Khan and Amanullah Junejo.

Ameer Jan, Rizwan and others demanded abolishing term-back policy and holding special supplementary examination with the word “supplementary” deleted from degrees. Surprisingly, no clarification had been issued by the university authorities during the last two weeks.