Pakistan Muslim League-Q will never tolerate injustice with the teachers or students and will raise the issue of torture at every forum including the parliament. Pakistan Muslim League-Q President, Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said this while talking to reporters after meeting a delegation of Punjab Teachers and Students' Joint Action Committee in Lahore, on Monday.
Shujaat said, "The rulers in Punjab have no respect for the teaching community. The government owned schools and colleges are being dished out to political favourites who will use this valuable public property for personal gains." He added that his party will not allow Punjab government to implement this plan.
He further said that on one hand, the incumbent government is hell-bent on handing over government owned educational institutions to its lackeys while on the other, in 42 schools and colleges buildings completed during Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi's chief ministership, required staff is not being provided. He offered Punjab government to remove 'Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi's plaques from these 42 educational institutions if that is the only barrier in making these centres of learning functional'.
Pakistan Muslim League-Q president termed handing over of government owned educational institutions to boards of governors a tyrannical decision of Punjab government, saying principals or teachers of these institutions were not consulted while preparing the proposal.
Speaking on the occasion, Pakistan Muslim League-Q Secretary General, Mushahid Hussain Sayed termed violence against teachers and students in Punjab a cowardly act. He said the N-League leadership, which has 'assured loyalty to the United States and given protection to sugar thieves has no qualms in using brute force against the educated sections of the province'.
Expressing his views, Pakistan Muslim League-Q leader, Kamil Ali Agha remarked that he wants to know that after privatisation of government-run educational institutions, where the poor students of the province would go to receive education.
Earlier, during the meeting, president of the committee, Dr Zahid Ahmad Sheikh appreciated the steps taken by Punjab government during Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi's rule, till year 2007, for the promotion of education including provision of free books, ample scholarships for deserving students and declaring education free up to matriculation.
He said that instead of the chief minister, the aggrieved teachers and students were made to talk to Rana Sanaullah and Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman. He threatened that if their demands were not met by December 31, teachers and students would have no choice but to start a movement against the government. Dr Zahid thanked the leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Q for supporting the just demands of teachers and students of the province.
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