Students block a flyover near Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital during their protest against on-campus examinations. — White Star
LAHORE: The province-wide protests by students against on-campus examinations on Tuesday took an ugly turn as several students were baton-charged and injured by the security guards of a private university in the provincial capital.
The students – two of them said to be critical – were hospitalised.
Hundreds of students of various educational institutes of the city under the slogans of “Justice for the Students” had been protesting for the last two weeks against the decision to conduct on-campus examinations.
On Tuesday, the students were chanting slogans against the varsity’s administration and trying to enter the University of Central Punjab (UCP) from the main gate to hold a sit-in outside the vice chancellor’s office. The security guards armed with batons opened the gate and attacked the students. The students rushed to save themselves and five of them suffered head injuries. The injured were identified as Progressive Students Collective (PSC) president Zubair Siddiqi, general secretary Ali Aftab, Abdullah, Arslan and Shah Jahan.