KARACHI, Aug 3: Students of the Karachi University on Saturday staged a protest demonstration in front of the university’s administration block.

The demontration was was organized by an alliance of six student bodies. The partcipants chanted slogans against deputy registrar Syed Khalid’s intervention in students’ affairs and urged acceptance of their demands.

They also staged a sit-in in front of the building and refused to disperse. Later, campus secretary Mohammad Shahid, along with the Students’ Advisory Committee, agreed to hold talks and held a detailed meeting with students’ representatives.

Osama Shafique of the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) told that the administration had agreed to withdraw the showcause notices and FIRs lodged against students and stop intervening in their campaign against thre task force’s recommendations and to probe into the torture by rangers on four KU students.

“They have also assured us that Khalid Jamai will not interfere in students activities from now on”, he said adding that the KU administration had also admitted to having made false announcement about the arrest of “terrorists” from the campus.

No KU official was available to comment on the situation till the filing of this report, nor did the KU issue any press release in this regard.—PPI