Mardan varsity blamed for Mashal’s lynching

MARDAN: The members of Amn Jirga Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and civil society organisations here on Friday staged a protest rally and held the administration of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan responsible for the lynching of Mashal Khan.

Amn Jirga provincial president Syed Kamal Shah, general secretary Arshad Manan and Dr Ibrahim led the protesters.

They marched from the Town Hall to Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan and held the protest demonstration in front of its main gate. The protesters blocked the busy Mardan-Nowshera road for more than one hour.

Addressing the protesters, Syed Kamal Shah criticised the university's administration for failing to avert the gory incident. "It was a pre-planned conspiracy in which officials, including professors and lecturers and other staff of Abdul Wali Khan University are involved,'' he alleged.

Kamal Shah alleged that most of the university's staff members were corrupt and criminal-minded.