Students, teachers and other staff of the College of Pharmacy Punjab University have demanded the Governor Punjab to take an immediate and stern action against the activists of Islami Jamiat Talba, who disrupted the festival organised by PU Pharmacy College.
While talking to newsmen here on Tuesday, Acting Principal Professor Dr Bashir Ahmad said that Pharmacy College celebrated its Pharmacy festival 2007 from 10 to 14 April this year. The festival involved many events like sports, exhibition of industrial units, establishment of pharmaceutical stalls, green day, and campaign against hepatitis disease, seminar on WTO and 3rd anniversary of College of Pharmacy. The students of various programs were involved in the various committees to assist the management, he briefed.
On the evening of April 14 when the festivities were in full swing, a mob of students belonging to IJT entered the college premises forcefully and used abusive language for the Dean and Principal, Faculty members and the students of the college, he told.
The students of the department told that the group of IJT immediately started ransacking the building and damaging the arrangements made by the contractor, for gala dinner in which about 2000 guests had been invited.
The activists of IJT damaged the crockery worth Rs 350,000 and also broke the TV, multimedia, computers and estimated costs of such damages is about Rs 1,000,000, they added. Students told Business Recorder that the IJT activists also used abusive language and beat up Zeeshan Danish, lecturer and secretary of the festival and some students. Dr Bashir Ahmed said that a case had been registered against the IJT activists, including Nazim, Muhammad Ayyub under the Anti Terrorism Act.