KARACHI, Oct 10: The NED University of Engineering and Technology has announced that the pre-admission test for 2,000 seats in the 2008-09 academic session will be held on October 12.

NED Registrar Javed Aziz Khan said on Friday that about 5,200 candidates would appear in the test.

Candidates have been advised to make it to the centre latest by 9.30am. In order to ensure safety of staff and candidates, walkthrough security gates are being installed at the entry point of the varsity and no one will be allowed in without passing through it.

Parents/guardians will not be allowed entry into the campus.

Meanwhile, the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association has condemned roughing up of a college teacher by some activists of a student organisation at the Government Degree Boys College, Sector 5L, North Karachi.

SPLA leaders held a meeting on Friday at the college and noted that that activists had occupied a room in the college building and were demanding it be furnished. When he refused to oblige the students, a teacher of the college, Prof Shahid, was roughed up and injured.—Agencies