NAWABSHAH, Jan 1: The situation has become extremely tense at the Quaid-i-Awam University of Engineering, Science, and Technology (QUEST) Nawabshah where Rangers were called to control the situation and who held a student on Wednesday.

However, the Rangers were called by the director, Students Affairs, Manzoor Panhwar, and not by any competent authority belonging to the university.

The situation became tense when some electrical engineering students asked several other students to boycott their classes at the QUEST. An argument started over this between both the groups, which soon turned into a dispute

Manzoor Panhwar told newsmen that several students — Khadim Hussain Bhatti, Abid Hussain Baloch, Syed Majid Hussain Shah, and Ayaz Ali Bhatti — came to his office to complain about students Nihal Dahani, Karamullah Dahani, Zaib Pathan, and Javed Mehar saying that they had entered their classroom and asked them to boycott their classes. He said that when they refused to do so, they were beaten up.

He asked the students to go to a doctor for treatment and when they came out of his office, they were again confronted by Nihal and the others.

He said that he came out of his office and asked them to stop fighting, but when the situation went out of control, he called the Rangers, who got hold of Nihal.

Nihal Dahani told this correspondent at the Taluka police station that they had come to lodge an FIR against the director, Students Affairs. They alleged that he was “an enemy of the students” and he had ordered the Rangers to “kill him”.

No FIR had been lodged till the filing of this report.