LAHORE, March 18: Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association, FC College, on Tuesday arranged a protest meeting at the college, and flayed the government’s move to return the college to the Presbyterian Church.

Teachers and students of the college took oath that they would offer any kind of sacrifice to save the college.

Giving vent to his feelings, Joint Action Committee chairman Nazim Hasnain said the rulers’ foreign masters were pressuring them to facilitate the establishment of the FBI base in the country’s educational institutions.

The participants decided that they would continue protest on Wednesday. The JAC leaders also urged the teachers to call respective college staff meetings and pass resolutions against the privatization of the educational institutions.

The JAC has convened a meeting of its central leaders from all over the country next week to decide future course of action.

Meanwhile, some of the protesting students clashed with police deployed on the FC College gate facing canal. The police arrested four students.

The students’ leaders claimed that the police had tried to stop students from entering the college. When a large number of students reached at the college gate to rescue the arrested, they claimed that police baton-charged them, leaving eight injured.

However, the police claimed the students had broken a wind screen of a car, and they had to take action to stop them.