PU Academic Staff Association (PUASA) took out a massive protest rally from the Old Campus on the Mall Road on Tuesday, which culminated at the Charing Cross and the protestors also staged sit in there.
The rally was led by the ASA President Professor Dr Mahr Muhammad Saeed Akhtar and General Secretary Professor Javed Sami and was participated by the representatives and office-bearers of civil society, University of Health Sciences, Lahore Region Colleges Teachers Association, APCA and Aurat Foundation. The protestors were wearing black ribbons and badges and were carrying placards and banners inscribed with anti-IJT slogans and demands of ASA.
President Professor Mahr Saeed Akhtar, during his talk with the representatives of news media, reiterated that unless all the major culprits and their accomplices who were involved in the brutal murderous assault on Professor Iftikhar Baloch are arrested and the respect and honour of the academicians should not be restored, the ASA would continue its complete academic boycott. He said it is their earnest desire that the classes should be started as earlier as possible.
He also offered his sincere thanks to the Chief Minister Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and senior police officials on their whole-hearted co-operation and support, which resulted in the arrest of three out of four culprits nominated in the FIR of Professor Iftikhar Baloch. He also hoped that the fourth culprits alongwith their accomplices would be apprehended very shortly.
He further told that the ASA General Body meeting would be held on April 14 at the Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology, but no protest rally would be brought out afterwards. The meeting would comprehensively review the latest situation and the media would be apprised about the future line of action, accordingly.
He also informed that after the vacation of varsity hostels, the concerned officials are speedily and thoroughly checking and preparing lists of illegal occupants to cancel their allotments. In response to a question, Professor Akhtar observed that ASA is a non-political body, which has nothing to do with political parties. The professors are university employees and neither our association is a political organisation nor we are playing politics.
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