NUML students, faculty flay police's role

ISLAMABAD The students of National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Friday, staged a protest demonstration on the campus against lynching of two brothers in Sialkot and torture of female students of Quaid-i-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur. Around 350 students of different departments of the university gathered at the parking area of the campus and shouted slogans We Want Justice and Justice Denied is Justice Delayed. Faculty members of the university also joined them. They carried placards and banners inscribed with slogans against the perpetrators of Sialkot incident and the Bahawalpur police for torturing female students of the medical college. Terming the Sialkot incident shameful and act of barbarianism which had further tarnished the image of the country, they demanded that the perpetrators must be apprehended and awarded punishment. They also condemned the Punjab police for its role as silent spectator during the killing of the brothers by the mob. On the media reports that the two brothers were robbers, they said the issue must not be politicised and even if they were burglars street justice should not be prevailed and people should not take law into their hands. The students also condemned the baton charge of female doctors by police personnel at the campus. They demanded registration of an FIR under the Anti-Terrorism Act against the DPO who ordered the policemen to baton-charge female students and doctors. The students said the brutal treatment meted out to the medical students by the Punjab police was an inhumane act and the height of highhandedness on the part of police officials. They demanded of the federal and provincial governments to look into both the matters and provide justice to the bereaved family and QAMC students. They sought from the Punjab government to overhaul and reform the police force which instead of protecting human lives lowering sanctity of female students and remain silent spectator if such barbaric Sialkot incidents occur.

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