KARACHI, May 5: The Students Action Committee, Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (DCET), has condemned the statement by the Federal Minister for Education Zobaida Jalal in which she had directing the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) to accredit the college.

At a meeting on the college campus on Wednesday, the committee alleged that the minister was trying to hoodwink the students and people.

The meeting, chaired by the committee's chairman, Altaf Baloch, was informed that the minister had failed to order an inquiry into the police action against the DCET students. It was further informed a group of the college students called on the PEC Deputy Registrar Javed Khan to seek the PEC's views on accreditation issue.

"Mr Khan told the students that the PEC had received no letter from DCET principal for a visit to the college. He said that there were no chance of DCET's registration with the PEC over the next three years," the action committee meeting noted.

The committee decided that the students would stage protest demonstration and sit-in at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday and would also start a hunger strike there next week. It resolved that if the protest failed to receive a positive response, the committee members would resort to self-immolation. -PPI