HYDERABAD: Around 40 foreign students were picked up during a search operation in the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences boys hostel conducted by the Jamshoro police and Rangers personnel late on Thursday evening.

The students belonged to Indian-held Jammu & Kashmir, Afghanistan, Syria and Sudan. They were let-off on Friday after the university administration undertook to make them to complete their documents.

Jamshoro SSP Tariq Walayat said that the students were detained after they failed to produce valid visas, papers relating to their mandatory registration with the police station concerned and other documents. He said the university administration had sought one week’s time to provide the students’ complete documents to the police. He said similar search operations would be carried out at the Sindh and Mehran universities.

Published in Dawn, September 17th, 2016