Teachers injured as police break varsities employees protest
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June 1, 2021
PESHAWAR: Scores of university teachers sustained injuries and 24 were arrested on Monday when police resorted to baton charge and used tear gas shells against the faculty members of different universities of the province, who had gathered outside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly to press for acceptance of their demands.
The teachers from the public sector universities and non-teaching employees announced a boycott of academci activities in all the public sector universities of the province.
None of the universities would remain open for any academic or non-academic activities throughout the province until a formal apology is tendered to the protesting employees and all their demands are unconditionally accepted, declared Dr Fazle Nasir, central vice-president of the Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) and president Peshawar University Teachers Association (PUTA), whi
Police baton charge university teachers
SSP Yasir Afridi said protestors did not open roads despite repeated warnings
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PESHAWAR:
Police on Monday baton charged teachers and clerical staff of the public sector universities who started their protest march under the banner Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association (FAPASWA) to press for their demands.
Teachers, clerical staff and class four employees of universities started their march from University of Engineering (UOE) and reached the provincial assembly where they closed the Khyber Road for all types of vehicular traffic.
Police asked the protesting teachers to open the road but when they did not open it, police started baton charging them and used tear gas shells against them.
PESHAWAR: The Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association has criticized special assistant to the chief minister, Kamran Bangah, for referring to the universities as private corporation.
PESHAWAR: The Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association has criticized special assistant to the chief minister, Kamran Bangah, for referring to the universities as private corporation.
Peshawar
February 11, 2021
PESHAWAR: The protest drive by the academic staff and administrative officers of the Agriculture University Peshawar continued on Wednesday and the protesters threatened to take to streets and block Jamrud Road and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) to press the government and the university administration to accept their demands.
The provincial government and the university administration on the other hand have turned a deaf ear to the protest campaign, which has been going on for the past three weeks.
On Thursday, leaders of the teachers’ representative bodies from other universities also visited the protest camp of the university employees and assured them full support in their struggle.