...the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami...
and Imamia Students Organisation on Thursday over holding a Yaum-i-Imam Hussain event on the
Punjab University's New Campus left several of them injured and some vehicles damaged.Around 200 students belonging to both organizations pelted each other with stones and bricks, besides resorting to gun sex at the varsity's parking lot adjacent to Faisal Auditorium. Girl students, who were sitting in the lawns of Institute of Education and Research and preparing for their examinations, got traumatised and took refuge inside the institute building when the violence erupted at around 11am.
The armed clash continued for almost two hours, while police played silent spectator.
The coppers deployed on the campus, meanwhile, bravely ran away when they saw a group of students heading towards them. A large battalion of varsity's security guards was also not seen on the spot.
The Rescue 1122 personnel later shifted the injured students to Jinnah and Sheikh Zayed hospitals, while a journalist, Abdul Shakoor and over a dozen injured students were given first aid on the spot.
The girl students, who witnessed the whole incident from first floor of the IER building, told Dawn the IER and Faisal Auditorium lawns, parking lot and the road leading towards the main gate had turned into a battlefield.
"Bricks and stones were flying like birds," a student, Muniba Ijaz, said. Another student said their examination had also been postponed in the wake of the clash.