Punjab University Revolution

IJT continues to torture Pro-Judiciary students

2008-03-26T05:54:00.000-07:00

SOME Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) activists allegedly tortured a student at the Punjab University (PU) on Tuesday.

The incident took place at the PU Law College, New Campus, when some Jamiat activists tried to remove banners of a cricket tournament, being organised by the college administration and students.

Some students attempted to stop the IJT activists from removing the banners, which infuriated them and they gave a good thrashing to one of the students, Asad. A Law College student, requesting not to be named, told The News the Jamiat activists fled as soon as anti-Jamiat students had started gathering in the college. He said the students stayed there for some time and chanted slogans, like “Go Jamiat Go,” adding that the college administration had to intervene to pacify the protesting students. <MORE>

This is third time in the last couple of months that the IJT has tortured the students in the premises of Punjab University. Prior to this, the unprovoked aggression by IJT was witnessed when they roughed up SAC members in February and later in the mid of March when the SAC members took a beating.

All accusations against SAC detainees revoked...

2007-12-11T02:16:00.000-08:00

All accusations against SAC detainees are revoked and they will be released today after some legal procedural formalities. Then they will visit Lahore Press Club around 4:00 PM today.

It is a big accomplishment for SAC and all supporting activists. We salute our detained SAC members for their fabulous inspiring courage and we thank you all for your in-time support and help.

We encourage you all to give a warm welcome to our all SAC members at 4:00 PM today in front of Lahore press club. Please join us together to welcome them.

SAC keeps on striking…

2007-12-09T14:29:00.000-08:00

SAC members (students of different institutes e.g. FAST, LUMS, PU, UMT etc) have continued striking in front of Lahore Press Club for the release of their detained members. From last 37 hours they are waiting for hearing of their plea but ruthless establishment seems giving no attention to their demands. SAC members are still hoping for miraculous comeback from their Government at present. Hunger, thirst and even chilly winter nights, nothing could affect their determination for the release of their friends.

We demand our Government to take serious action to release all SAC detainees without anymore delays.

Courtesy: FASTRising

Protests to get our friends released

2007-12-07T07:27:00.000-08:00

10 people were arrested from the residence of Justice Siddiqui in GOR last night at 9 PM. The arrested guys included members of FASTRising, LUMS community and a few lawyers (including females as well). Members of Students Action Committee demonstrated against the detention of their friends and lawyers till 3 AM (7-Dec-07) in front of Race Course Police Station, the place where they were kept. Later the protesters dispersed to come later with larger strength.

The protesters gathered at Camp Jail the next afternoon (7-Dec-07) as the arrested people have been shifted to this place. Before their shift here, they had a hearing in Cantt kachehry where they were convicted of disturbing peace and MPO was imposed on them. The protesters continued to chant slogans carrying placards and banners. They dispersed around 3 PM after they were surrounded by police and they pressurised them to leave the place.

Many students from PU joined the members of SAC in both the protests but a majority of students were unable to join because of the heavy deployments of police in PU hostels to resist student movement.

Dont leave your friends alone, join us in upcoming protests !

Students Action Committee calls for protest at Lahore High Court on 10th Dec 2007

2007-12-06T08:23:00.001-08:00

Students Action Committee, Lahore has called for a protest rally at Lahore High Court on 10th December, 2007 at 12:30 PM. Join us !

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PU students join the SAC at Press Club protest

2007-12-04T04:25:00.000-08:00

Students from PU joined the SAC at the protest organized at Lahore Press Club today at 3:00 PM. Students from various departments managed to reach the Press Club building despite the attempts being made by the cops to resist the students to do so. From early morning, heavy deployments of police were seen around the new campus of PU and Campus Under Pass. The videos and photos below capture the event with detail. A few of students from PU addressed the protesters in the end as well.

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SAC calls for protest on December 4th,2007

2007-12-02T23:33:00.000-08:00

Students Action Committee, Lahore calls for a protest on December 4th, 2007 at 3:00 PM at Lahore Press Club.

Students from various educational institutes of Lahore will be participating in the peaceful protest. PU students will be joining the protest. Students from all departments of PU are encouraged to participate in the protest.

PU responds to the call of SAC, Lahore

2007-12-01T06:06:00.000-08:00

Many students from PU respond to the call of SAC,Lahore and joined the protesters at Liberty round-about on 30th November, 2007. Protesters from various educational institutes of Lahore gathered at the Liberty round-about around 2 PM. Heavy deployment of police didn't allowed the protesters to march towards the Liberty Market and were forced to stay on the round-about. The students formed a human-hand-chain around the round-about holding placards and banners which read, 'Go Musharraf Go' , 'Independent Judiciary, Independent Pakistan','Adlia Azad Karo', 'Aamriyat Na'Manzoor' and similar slogans. Later they merged into a rally and moved around chanting anti-Musharraf slogans. National anthem recited by the students marked an end to the protest.

Video Part 1- This first part of video captures the students forming a chain holding placards around the liberty-round-about and then the rally chanting slogans.

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Video Part 2 - This second part of video captures the students speeches and the national anthem recited by the rally to mark an end to the protest.

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Anti-Jamiyat Protests at PU

2007-12-01T06:05:00.000-08:00

Punjab University (PU) is the largest public sector university of Pakistan. IJT has been occupying PU like many other public sector universities for years. Gunda-Gardi of IJT and their corruption is something about which anyone ever been a student of public sector universities can narrate you stories about.

A day after the humiliating arrest of IK in which IJT played a major role, a protest by PU students shocked the community. "Eye witnesses have put the approximate figure of protestors at about 2,500 to 3,000 students making this the largest-ever anti-IJT protest in Punjab University's history as well as the biggest post-emergency apolitical rally of students in Pakistan!"

Details - An eye witness account by a PU student at LMB

The videos tell the story interestingly !

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Imran Khan at PU - an eye witness account

2007-12-01T06:01:00.000-08:00

Chairman, PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf), Imran Khan had called for a protest on November 14,2007 at Punjab University Campus bridge at 11:00 AM. This was going to be the first public appearance of IK after the imposition of emergency since when he was in hide-out. It was pretty obvious that the bad-guys who have been looking for him since then will not let him go this time. Khan must have this thing in mind that it won't be as easy to escape this time as he managed to last time when the cops raided his residence in Zaman Park, Lahore to arrest him after issuance of his arrest warrants. As expected heavy deployments of police were seen through-out the city to counter the protest activity being lead by most popular leader in youth. The cops were deployed at at all major chowks to resists any possible movement of masses towards the hot-spot. Crowd was seen quite scattered by 11 AM around Mughal-e-Azam banquet hall near Barkat Market as the police was already there resisting any huge gathering. It was communicated that instead of Campus Bridge, Khan will appear at Seasons Chowk opposite to Mughal-e-Azam banquet hall near Barkat Market, possibly to play a trick to the heavy deployments of Police around PU. The crowd started gathering at the said place to welcome Khan but all of a sudden it was announced that he is going to appear at PU where students from PU and other universities along with PTI workers will welcome him.

Soon a crowd of around a thousand was waiting for Khan at PU and it was around a quarter past 12 that he appeared in his car along with senior members of PTI. The protesters chanted slogans to welcome him. The cops were not good enough to let this continue, soon the laathi-charge started and I was one of the blessed one to be hit by the laathi quite a few times. I can still feel how it hurts ! When the laathis were not enough, shelling of tear gas started to disperse the crowd. When all this drama was going on, a rumor spread in the crowd that IK has been arrested, which obviously did not come as a shocking news at all. As i tried to acquired a few details, I was informed that a few sufaid-posh have taken him away in his car. Many assumed that they were cops in plain clothes but a few were arguing that they were Jamiyat guys who have kidnapped him and taken him into custody. The crowd was dispersed by the cops and it remained unknown-story for quite a sometime that who those guys were. Very shorlty it was confirmed that those were guys from Islami Jamiat-e-Tuleba (IJT), student wing of Jamaa't-e-Islaami. The details later uncovered the fact that they locked IK somewhere in PU and manhandled him and other workers of PTI. They later called the police and got him arrested.

Here is a short clip which is the message from IK on arrest at PU.

An hour later, GEO TV aired a short telephonic conversation with the IJT-Head and he said, "we condemn what the members of IJT have done in case of Imran Khan at the protest " , thus accepting the treacherous act and with the double-faced nature, condemning it. A national hero being treated like this definitely makes it a day of shame for every Pakistani. When will we learn to respect and honour our heroes ?

Since, there is a positive aspect of everything, I find something good about 11/14 as well, may be I am being too much optimistic but I can atleast satisfy myself saying: Just the way 12th May 2007 uncovered the real face of MQM, this day uncovered the hidden treacherous double-faced IJT/JI. When I try to look for a reason why IJT did this, the first reason I can think of is , they did it on purpose to stop growing popularity of Imran Khan amongst youth and students specifically in PU and maintain their 'hold'. But do we need a reason to justify why IJT will do something like this ? This is something they have been doing for years. They have been occupying the largest public sector university of Pakistan and are involved in every kind of 'gunda-gardi' you can think of. Be if PU, FCC, ICCL or other public sector institutes they have this tradition of 'guna-gardi' everywhere. This quite acceptable from someone like them.

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