HYDERABAD, Aug 4: Under the banner of the Sindh People's Students Federation-SB, students of BDS of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, on Wednesday boycotted classes and staged a sit-in to protest against the university administration.

Wearing black arm bands, the students said no necessary equipment was available in their faculty. They said the faculty was short of books. Opposing the shifting of the BDS faculty to the Mehran Hostel, they demanded separate building for the faculty.

The students, led by Dr Javed Jokhio, Dr Ateeq Cheema and Dr Jamil Ujjan, raised slogans against the university vice-chancellor and demanded his removal. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the vice-chancellor said the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council had recognized the dental section of the university and added that master's and diploma courses had been started in dentistry.

He said the dental section had been upgraded to the institute of dentistry. He said the students who were complaining about lack of facilities were not attending classes and they had failed the examinations.

SU: Manpower skills would be improved and qualified people would be appointed against vacant posts at the Allama I. I. Kazi Library of the University of Sindh.

This decision was taken at a meeting at the library held on Wednesday. The meeting also decided to upgrade the library. Vice-chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, who presided over the meeting, was informed that eminent scholars Dr N. A. Baloch and Dr N. B. G Qazi had given a number of valuable books in Sindhi, English, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Punjabi and other languages from their personnel collection to the library.