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FAISALABAD, Nov 19: Teachers and students of Faisalabad and Gujranwala continued on Tuesday their protest against the constitution of boards of governors in educational institutions and hospitals and the Model University Ordinance.
In Faisalabad, they held demonstrations outside the Government Municipal Degree College, Government College, Samanabad College and Islamia College.
The protesters were carrying banners and placards inscribed with their demands. They also chanted slogans against the government and blocked roads in front of their institutions for traffic for some time.
The teachers of all the colleges in the district also boycotted the classes.
Meanwhile, Joint Action Committee representatives vowed to continue their protest movement till the withdrawal of the government decision to constitute BoGs.
In a statement, Abdul Khaliq Nadeem, Ziaullah Randhawa, Adrees Ahmad and others demanded that the Punjab government should hold an inquiry into the causes that led to the clash between police and protesters outside the GC University on Nov 14.
They criticized the district government for announcing that the JAC would hold its protest demonstrations within the premises of colleges.
They claimed that during a meeting the district Nazim had proposed that the protest rallies and procession should be held within premises of colleges but this proposal was rejected by the JAC members.
Announcing that protest demonstration would be held in front of the colleges throughout the district, they asked the police and district administration not to create problems in way of their peaceful protest movement.
They alleged that some unscrupulous elements were advising the government to privatize educational and health institutions and disgrace teachers and doctors to please industrialists of the province.
They urged President Gen Pervez Musharraf to order immediate withdrawal of the decision to set up of BoGs for educational and health institutions.
GUJRANWALA: The activists of Anjuman Tulaba-i-Islam (ATI) announced here on Tuesday that they would observe ‘save education fortnight’ till Nov 29.
Speaking at a news conference, ATI’s Punjab general secretary Salahuddin Kharal, divisional Nazim Iqbal Hinjra and district president Mehr Qaiser Shahzad said that they would hold meetings and take out processions against the constitution of BoGs for educational institutions and public hospitals.
They demanded that government should withdraw this decision.
