PU ASA urges CM to take notice of IJT hooliganism

Lahore: Punjab University Academic Staff Association while condemning a fresh attack by IJT hooligans on the car of University Law College’s Assistant Professor Imran Alam has demanded of Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif to take notice of continuous attack on PU teachers  and provide protection to the faculty members.

While addressing an emergency press conference at Executive Club, ASA office bearers including Vice President Dr Abid Hussain, Dr Faheem Aftab, Dr Mahboob Hussain, Dr Muqeet Javed, Dr Sardar Iqbal and Imran Alam said that IJT goons had threatened Mr Alam a day before and on Friday at 7:30pm, IJT hooligans attacked his car parked outside an office near Campus bridge breaking windowpanes.  They said that a very few IJT members wanted to disrupt peaceful academic environment of the university with the help of outsiders. They said that police officials were not arresting the accused IJT activists nominated in FIRs which was encouraging IJT goons to continue such attacks.

They said that in the recent incidents of hooliganism, IJT activists opened fire on the house of Chairman Hall Council Prof Dr Muhammad Akhter on September 12’s midnight, attacked car of female lecturer of Institute of Communication Studies Ayesha Hakeem on October 17 and raided the house of Department of Kashmiriat’s Assistant Prof Sardar Asghar Iqbal on November 11. The ASA office bearers said that a strict action must be taken against the culprits involved in the incidents so that peaceful academic environment could be ensured.