[Pak Daily Times] Punjab government has announced to start a crackdown on activists of Islami Jamaat Talaba (IJT), at Punjab University (PU) who were involved in blocking roads at New Campus Bridge during an eight hours long protest on Monday that generated snarl-ups.The government had acquired a CCTV footage installed at the location of protest and after identifying the students-cum-protesters, their arrests would be made under the sections of Anti-Terrorist Act (ATA), this was informed to the Punjab Assembly by the Provincial Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan during a session of Punjab Assembly on Monday.
Mashhood told the house that politics should be refrained from educational institutes especially the Punjab University where several incidents like torture on teachers had already been reported while some gunnies belonging to a banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization were nabbed
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
from the varsity hostels.
He categorically stated that some people were involved in politicising education in different educational institutes that could not be tolerated anymore and the government would take stern action against the culprits under the law. He also appreciated the role of police to keep peace during Muharram.
While the opposition leader in the house, Mian Mehmood ur Rasheed, on a point of order, strongly condemned the mismanagement of Punjab government and the police department for their failure to control the city traffic and to maintain law and order during eight hours long protest in which a bus was also burnt by myrmidons.
As per my information, he said, at least two patients died in the ambulances who remained stuck in a traffic jam for eight hour near Garden Town while other citizens also faced several troubles during this protest.
He said it was a failure of the police and SSP Lahore and other responsible officials should tender their resignations and government should dismiss them from service immediately. He also suggested constructing an over-head bridge and underpasses at the New Campus areas.