PESHAWAR, Dec 17: The Islami Jamiat Talaba has claimed that 88 per cent of the students favoured the restoration of students’ union activities in the educational institutes in what they termed a referendum that was held here on Tuesday.

About 5,195 students and 75 teachers polled their votes in at 12 polling station at the University of Peshawar, University of Engineering and Technology, Agriculture University, Islamia College and the Khyber Medical College.

Arbab Khan Afridi, president of the Peshawar University Teachers Association visited the polling stations.

Speaking on the occasion, Islami Jamiat Talaba leaders said that in the absence of student unions, their problems had greatly increased.

REFERENDUM RESULT REJECTED: Meanwhile, the Jamiat Talaba Islam (JTI) rejected the “referendum’s” results, saying only students affiliated with the IJT had participated in it.

In a press release here on Tuesday, the JTI’s campus chief Muzzamil Khan Mohmand, said that none of the student organizations had been taken into confidence before the holding of the so-called referendum.

He said that the Jamiat Talaba Islam was not against the restoration of the students’ union, but stressed that all representative student organisations should be taken into confidence.