KARACHI, Sept 7: Vice-Chancellor of Karachi University Dr Zafar Saeed Saifi has lashed out at those elements who resorted to hooliganism on the campus on Saturday and said they are those who neither want to teach nor study.

Talking to newsmen on Saturday, he said that these elements on Saturday inflicted a loss of about three million as they damaged his car and office doors, as well as equipment.

The VC said that the telephone exchange had also been damaged.

“This was the show of those who are neither interested in teaching nor studying. It amounts to terrorism”, Prof. Saifi said while referring to Saturday’s incident at the campus in which some teachers and students had sustained injuries in confrontation with the security staff of Karachi University.

“What a teacher of Mass Communication and Applied Physics doing at the Administration Block at a time when they should have been teaching in their classes”, the VC raised a query.

He said the faculty members, the non-teaching staff and the students had joined hands just to try and show as to how powerful they are although they had no genuine grievance or demand.

Prof. Saifi said these elements had themselves initiated confrontation with the security staff of the University.

Their only purpose was to harm the institution and create disturbance.

He stated that all those students who were detained for a brief period have been set free and pardoned.

The Vice-Chancellor announced that Karachi University will remain open and that the teaching process would continue as usual.—APP