Hyderabad:14 January: The employees of the Sindh University on Friday extended support to the protesting university teachers who were demanding removal of ViceChancellor Dr Nazir Mughal and arrest of the killers of Dr Bashir Ahmed Channar.

The president of the Sindh University Employees Welfare Association (SEWA) Ghulam Nabi Bhalai and secretary Allah Wadhayo Sehto expressed the support in a meeting with delegation of Sindh University Teachers Association (SUTA) led by its president Dr Azhar Ali Shah and general secretary Dr Arfana Mallah.

The leaders also met representatives of civil society, including Pakistan Institute of Labour and Research and briefed them about the state of affairs on the campus.

The civil society representatives were informed that classes had been suspended and no academic work was being carried out because teachers were increasingly feeling insecure after the murder of Dr Channar who was killed on the campus during university timing.

They blamed maladministration on part of the vice-chancellor for the precarious conditions.

The representatives of civil society assured the teachers of full cooperation.

A delegation of the Pakistan Human Rights Commission led by Asad Iqbal Butt gathered details about the situation in the university.

The teachers also met officebearers of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association and sought the association's support for their demands.

The teachers also held a Quran Khwani for the departed soul of Dr Channar at the lawn of the Arts Faculty.

The Federation of AllPakistan Universities Academic Staff Association's Sindh chapter will meet on Saturday to chalk out its strate-gy with regard to situation on campus.

SUAT President Dr Azhar Shah said the association was preparing to move court against the decision of the university syndicate which had purportedly authorised the vice-chancellor to take any action against the president and general secretary of SUTA.

The meeting of the syndicate was illegal in the first place because the body was incomplete without representatives of university teachers.