“Some Islami Jamiat Talaba members tortured a security guard at the New Campus cricket ground on Friday”…the guard has been taken to Jinnah Hospital, the Punjab University spokesperson said on Friday.
The spokesperson said some “rascals” had beaten up guard Tariq. He said Tariq had filed his statement with the Muslim Town police and was taken to Jinnah Hospital for medico-legal examination. He said IJT members often misbehaved with teachers and guards. The PU Academic Staff Association has requested the chief minister to take strict notice of the IJT’s “hooliganism” and help them maintain an academic environment. An IJT spokesman denied the accusation. “No IJT member quarrelled with a guard on Friday. The new chief security officer has brought in new guards. The new and old guards had a clash and one of them got injured. The administration is trying to place the blame for this on us.”
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2014.