Hyderabad: Academic activities remained suspended in Sindh University in Jamshoro on Monday because teachers boycotted classes.

Representatives of the Sindh University Teachers' Association (SUTA) along with hundreds of teachers marched on the campus from department to department.

They were chanting slogans for the immediate implementation of their demands i.e., to constitute a judicial commission to probe the assassination of Prof Bashir Ahmed Channar, immediate removal of the retired, inefficient and incapable vice-chancellor Nazir A.Mughal, removal of police and Rangers from the campus and improvement of university's own security system and ban on student wings of political parties while restoring the student unions.

Teachers marched from the main campus to the administration Building (AC II) where office-bearers of SUTA and other faculty members delivered speeches in support of their demands. They regretted that no action had yet been taken by the chancellor and the Government of Sindh regarding implementation of their demands.

President of SUTA Dr Azhar Ali Shah, secretary Dr Arfana Mallah, Asghar Burfat, Dr Ayaz Keerio, Prof Badar Soomro, Janealam Solangi and others termed SUTA's struggle for structural changes.

They reaffirmed their determination that they would continue to record their protest and agitation every day until all the demands were implemented.

Speaking to protesters, teachers' leaders reminded the present government of the MRD movement and asked for restoring democracy in the educational institutions of Sindh which they said were being run under the dual dictatorship of the chancellor and the vice-chancellors.

After a sit-in at AC-II, SUTA executive council held a meeting with the Sindh chapter of the Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA).

The meeting was presided over by Prof Naimatullah Laghari, president of the Sindh chapter of FAPUASA and attended by presidents and secretaries of the teachers' association of the Quaid Awam University in Nawabshah, University of Sindh, Mehran Engineering University and Sindh Agriculture University in Tandojam.

FAPUASA reiterated their support for SUTA's four demands and regretted that despite a written communication by the president of FAPUASA-Sindh chapter to Dr Ishratul Ibad, the chancellor of the universities had fixed no appointment to discuss the volatile situation prevalling in the Sindh University.

They said that though University of Sindh was continuously observing suspension of academic activities since Jan 2, FAPUASA would observe another Black Day on Jan 19 and would decide for continuous suspension of classes throughout Sindh if SUTA's demands were not discussed and accepted by the chancellor by Jan 20.

The Sindh chapter of FAPUASA also condemned consideration of re-appointment of Pirzada Qasim as vicechancellor of the Karachi University. Dawn.