LAHORE: The Punjab University on Wednesday expelled two Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) members of the BSc Pharmacy (final year) programme for allegedly beating up fellow students with clubs. The departmental disciplinary committee, headed by Dr Jamshaid, who is thought to sympathise with the IJT, announced the decision after a meeting that began Wednesday morning and ended in the evening. However, no action was taken against the other IJT members reportedly involved in the attack. Dr Jamshaid is the warden of Khalid Bin Waleed Hostel, where many of the estimated 35 students involved in the attack live. He reportedly ordered the release of two IJT-students who other students said they caught in the brawl and then locked in a room. The disciplinary committee expelled Taimur Awan, the IJT nazim of the Pharmacy Department, and Akramullah Khan. The PU disciplinary committee, headed by Dr Shaukat of the Physics Department, also held a meeting on the issue. The IJT activists, eyewitnesses told Daily Times on Wednesday, were displeased when they saw a boy and girl sitting together in the department building and tried to force them to move. Other students stopped the IJT activists, but they later returned in a mob of around 35 people armed with clubs.
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