Academic activities come to a halt at UoP

PESHAWAR: Academic and administrative activities remained suspended in the University of Peshawar (UoP) due to the strike of the employees against the rickshaw and handcart owners, who allegedly ransacked offices and took away with them their vehicles that had been seized by the university administration.

The administration of the university seems to be unhappy with the performance of the campus police, who according to the spokesman for the university were hand-in-glove with the alleged attackers.

UoP Vice-Chancellor Qazi Mohammad Naeem wrote a letter to the inspector general of police to lodge a formal complaint against the alleged ineffectiveness of the campus police.

The letter stated that the police remained inefficient and non-responsive despite repeated calls by the university administration in the wake of the reported attack on the university offices.

The university employees during their protest remarked that the campus police had failed to protect the lives and properties of the inmates of the campus.

The university administration wants the alleged attackers to be charged with terrorism sections.

The university’s spokesman claimed that hundreds of hooligans attacked the Khyber House housing offices of the director administration of the university, broke its gate, ransacked the offices and took the officials hostages. They also took away the seized vehicles with them.