LAHORE, Dec 23: Activists of the Imamia Students Organization (ISO) and the Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) on Friday staged separate demonstrations in protest against Thursday's clash over holding a Yaum-i-Imam Hussain event on the Punjab Universitys New Campus.

The ISO activists demonstrated in front of the Lahore Press Club demanding the arrest of IJT activists who attacked ISO's Yaum-i-Imam Hussain event.

The protesters were carrying banners and placards bearing condemnation statement against the IJT.

Addressing protesters, Majlis Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen provincial secretary-general Allama Abdul Khaliq Asadi said the IJT attacked the event that was being organised to remember Hazrat Imam Hussain.

He said the IJT not only desecrated the respect of Punjab University by attacking students with batons, bricks and firing but also violated the constitution and law.

Mr Asadi said the ISO had vice-chancellor's written permission to hold the event, but IJT's hooliganism had put a serious question before the government to explain if the Punjab University was a personal property of the IJT.

He also criticised Jamaat-i-Islami secretary-general Liaquat Baloch who had backed Jamaat's student wing despite the fact that he was informed about the attitude of the IJT time and again.

Other speakers regretted that the police played the role of a silent spectator and had failed to arrest any culprit responsible for the clash between two organisations.

They said the ISO had announced three-day mourning and launched country-wide protest demonstrations across the country.

Speakers demanded that the government should ensure that the Yaum-i-Imam Hussain be organised on the Punjab University campus, those responsible for Thursday's clash be arrested and brought to book.

The police should take action against those who brandished firearms and ensure the recovery of kidnapped students.

They also demanded that Liaquat Baloch and IJT's central leadership should seek public apology.

The Shia students residing in PU hostels should be given protection while a grand operation be launched to drive out miscreants from PU hostels.

Meanwhile, the Islami Jamiat Tulaba, Punjab University, also staged a protest demonstration against the PU vice-chancellor for fanning sectarianism on the university campus that led to injuring of several innocent students.

The protesters led by IJT PU acting nazim Amir Yaqoob on university campus chanted slogans against the vice-chancellor and alleged that the VC was engaging students in a clash to get second tenure of the vice-chancellorship.