HYDERABAD, Aug 10: A large number of employees of various universities held a demonstration and hunger strike outside the press club here on Sunday to press their demand for removal of the Sindh Agriculture University vice-chancellor.

The protesters including All-Sindh University Employees Federation leaders and the SAU Employees Action Committee leaders demanded removal of the vice-chancellor and his team.

Hussain Bux Veesar, Karam Ali Punnu and others accused the vice-chancellor and his team of massive malpractices.

They demanded immediate removal of what they called the retired vice-chancellor and his team of retired people and added that it was necessary to save the only agriculture university of Sindh.

They said that from Monday, they would hold separate demonstrations.

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