PESHAWAR, May 8: Joint Action Committee, a body set up to press teachers’ demands, has condemned the government for its “cold-shoulder response” to their strikes and protest demos against the Model University Ordinance (MUO).

Addressing a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club here Thursday, Arbab Khan Afridi, president of the NWFP chapter of the JAC, said the attitude of the so-called democratic governments at the centre and the NWFP was condemnable as they never “bothered to hold dialogue with the teachers” on MUO against which they were protesting for the last one year.

Flanked by the representatives of teachers, students and doctors associations, including Dr Shad Khan, Dr Haroon Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Arshad Ali, Shaukat Ali and others, Mr Khan said the MUO was unacceptable to the stake-holders in its present shape.

He asked the government to introduce amendment to the Universities Act in line with the present-day needs.