The Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) has called off the token strike it was observing in the public sector universities of Sindh on Tuesday.
According to FAPUASA's General Secretary, Dr Arfanna Mallah, the teachers are ending the strike in University of Sindh and the other universities in Jamshoro, Hyderabad, Shaheed Benazirabad and Sukkur districts following the decision taken by a meeting of FAPUASA at University of Sindh. "FAPUASA appreciated the steps taken by Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad and the acting Vice Chancellor Dr Parveen Shah to address the teachers' demands," she told the APP.
The teachers' protests began in the University of Sindh after the killing of Professor Bashir Ahmed Channar (Retd.) on January 02 at the campus. The Sindh University Teachers Association (SUTA) suspended the academic activities demanding removal of the VC Dr Nazir A. Mughal, a judicial investigation of Channar's murder, restoration of the student unions and a private security system replacing the deployment of Rangers and Police at the campus. According to SUTA's President, Dr Azhar Ali Shah, one of their key demands of removing Dr Mughal had been partially accepted by sending him on indefinite medical leave.
However, he added, the decision to end the boycott followed the recent withdrawal of job termination orders issued against eight faculty members of the university. "Yet the members of SUTA and Sindh University Employees Welfare Association (SEWA) will continue to hold a daily 2-hour sit-in outside the university's administration block from 12 pm to 2 pm unless the government removes the sitting vice chancellor and appoints a new one on merit," he told the APP. Although he clarified that their token sit-in would not disturb the academic activities.
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