HYDERABAD, Dec 20: Students of the Jinnah Law College and the Sindh Law College held a protest demonstration and observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Saturday against the proposed increase in law colleges’ fees.

Talking to journalists, Sindh Law Students Action Committee leaders Malik Mohammad Sabir Hussain, Mumtaz Lashari, Maqbool Mallah, Maula Bux Bhutto and others said a summary had been moved for 100 per cent increase in fees of law colleges.

They said the move was aimed at depriving poor students of their right to seek law education.

They said a series of protest demonstrations would be held throughout the province if the fees were increased.

NED VARSITY EXAMS: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair and MPA Abdul Rehman Rajput have asked the vice-chancellor of the NED Engineering University, Karachi, to save the future of 600 students of old batches of the Dawood Engineering College Karachi by allowing them to appear in examinations.

They were talking to a delegation of the Students Action Committee of the college that called on them here on Friday.

The delegation members, led by Waqar Leghari, said the students were suffering due to an ongoing confrontation between the university vice-chancellor and the college administration.

They said they were eligible to take the examinations.

They said they would observe hunger strikes on the main roundabouts of the province if they were not allowed to appear in the examinations. The MMA leaders assured the students of their support.