HYDERABAD, March 6 A large number of students of different teaching institutes and departments of the Sindh University called on its vice- chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui on Friday and extended cooperation for maintaining peaceful environment at the campus.

They said that students wanted to study in a peaceful atmosphere and the university administration should make efforts to provide protection to them against a handful of miscreants.

They said that the university and civil administration should take action against those who were disturbing peaceful atmosphere and the university authorities should ask police to maintain law and order at the campus. They appealed to other students to regularly attend classes and help in maintaining peaceful environment at the university.

The vice-chancellor said that the university management would make efforts to maintain discipline and peaceful environment at the campus. Mr Siddiqui said that he had asked the teachers to take classes regularly even if only one student was present in the class.

SST Activists of the Sindhi Shagird Tehrik, the student wing of the Awami Tehrik, staged a march from Hyder Chowk to the Hyderabad Press Club to protest against the alleged murder of a student, Fareed Khoso, and an incident of firing between so-called student leaders in the Sindh University and boycott of classes at the campus.

SST president Ayaz Chandio said that blue eyed boys of the government were resorting to boycott and the university administration, police and Rangers were witnessing turmoil at the campus as silent spectators.

JSSF The activists of the Sindh University chapter of the Jeay Sindh Students Federation have condemned hooliganism which, according to them, has become the order of the day at the university.