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HYDERABAD, July 10: The Principals Coordination Committee and Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) condemned the forcible occupation of the I.H. Zubairi Home Economics College, Qasimabad, by the police and warned that if the premises was not vacated within three days then the teachers and students would stage protest demonstrations throughout the province.
The meeting, which was held at the Government Sachal Sarmast College on Wednesday, was presided over by Prof Liaquat Aziz.
The meeting alleged that the police, which acted more like thieves, broke the lock of the girls college in the middle of the night and took over its possession.
It expressed grave concern over the proposal of the so-called PML (Q) leader, Dr Badar Channa, given to the provincial minister for education to establish a police station in the college.
It warned that if the police did not vacate the girls college, the responsibility for the consequences would squarely rest on the shoulders of the education minister and Dr Badar Channa.
CLARIFICATION: The media coordinator, PML (Q), Sindh, Badar Channa in a clarification issued on Wednesday about the shifting of the Qasimabad police station to the Qasimabad girls college said that the proposal about the shifting was temporary and conditional as the college was lying vacant.
He said that the minister of education had insisted that the shifting of the police station could only be possible if the college was lying vacant.
He claimed that he, himself, or the chairman, Shopkeepers Association, Rasool Bux Shaikh or the education minister had no personal interest in the shifting but the proposal was given in the best interest of the people of Qasimabad.
He said if the people of Qasimabad had any objections to this proposal then “I take back the proposal”.
The president, All Shopkeepers Association Qasimabad, Rasool Bux Shaikh, in a similar statement, said that if the people had any objection to the proposal of shifting the police station to the girls college then the government must make alternative arrangements for the police station.
