PESHAWAR, Oct 2: The Muttahida Tulaba Mahaz (MTM) — an alliance of six student organizations — has vowed to continue its struggle against the proposed university model ordinance.

Speaking at a press conference here at the Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, MTM President Waqas Ahmad said the alliance had chalked out a protest programme in association with teachers’ associations in the NWFP. The protest campaign would begin on Friday with the boycott of classes in the Peshawar University.

Waqas Ahmed said it was not the sole struggle of the students organizations as the teachers would also boycott their classes.

He said a meeting of all the provincial teachers’ associations and representatives of students’ organizations had been convened on Thursday with the objective to launch a joint struggle against the proposed ordinance.

Waqas Ahmed, who was flanked by leaders of other student organizations, said the proposed university ordinance would make education an exclusive domain for the privileged class, depriving the poor of education.

He alleged the government wanted to make education commercial. Through the proposed ordinance the government wanted to appoint teachers on contract basis, increase tuition fee and give more power to vice chancellors, he added.