PESHAWAR, April 27: The Students Action Committee of the Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, has announced that its members will go on hunger strike unto death in protest against what they called police high-handedness.

The committee also asked the government to remove the principal of the college and chief executive of the Ayub Teaching Hospital immediately. In a press release issued here on Tueaday, the committee condemned lathi-charge on innocent students.

It said that the students should have been warned by sending letters to their parents instead of beating and arresting them. The committee also expressed concern over the arrest of some 40 students and demanded their immediate release.

The committee appealed to the political parties to put their weight behind the students. It said that the students would start hunger strike which will continue till the acceptance of their demands.