A meeting of the Punjab University Deans Committee held on Wednesday that the heads of all departments should expel any university student claiming to be an Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) nazim, nominee for the post or IJT activists. The meeting, headed by PU vice chancellor Lt Gen (r) Arshad Mahmood, was held to discuss the gravity and strategy after the recent incidents of hooliganism by the IJT on the PU campus.The meeting strongly condemned the IJTs actions and alleged threats to the students, teachers and their families. In the meeting, some members confirmed that IJT activists had issued death-threats to the families of Pharmacy College principal Dr Muhammad Jamshed and a senior faculty member (IJT has denied this allegation). The committee condemned the disruption of the Pharmacy College exhibition by the IJT.
Insiders told Daily Times that the VC had allowed chairpersons, department heads, principals and directors of institutes had been asked to expel any university student claiming to be an IJT nazim, nominee for IJT nazim or an IJT activist. The sources said no show cause notice would be necessary for the expulsion of IJT nazims or activists because the organisation was trying to run a parallel administration and terrorise peaceful university students through that.
LAHORE: Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) has not removed its admission stalls in Punjab University (PU) despite the fact that the PU administration had issued notices to seven IJT activists, including its university nazim. According to a Daily Times survey on Wednesday, the IJT stalls were set up outside various departments including the Institute of Education and Research, Philosophy, College of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Mass Communication Department and the Institute of Business Administration. Meanwhile, the PU administration, which had claimed on Monday that it would lodge a case against 15 to 20 IJT activists for attacking the vice chancellorâs office, had still not sent a list of suspects to the Muslim Town area police. âWe were asked to point out a few dozen unidentified people in the first information report (FIR),â Muslim Town Police Station Duty Officer Naib Muharrar Afzal said on Wednesday.
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