GUJRANWALA: Colleges across Gujranwala region comprising six districts have been facing acute shortage of lecturers for the last seven years which is badly affecting academic activities.

Sources say there are 131 degree and postgraduate colleges in the region with 155,895 boys and girls on their rolls.

The minimum number of teachers required is around 3568 but the faculty strength available is just 1819, which is hardly 50 per cent. In some subjects students who can afford are forced to get help from private coaching centres.

It is also learnt that 870 posts of non-teaching staff are also lying vacant in these colleges.

Gujranwala Division Director Colleges Professor Khalil Zubair told Dawn that they had informed the authorities about the situation.

DEMO: The Jamat-i-Islami took out a rally against the acquittal of accused CTD personnel in the Sahiwal killing case.

The protesters chanted slogans in favor of kids who saw their parents sprayed with bullets in front of their eyes and displayed placards inscribed with slogans of seeking justice.

Protest leader Mazhar Iqbal Randhawa said that it was hard to digest that four innocent people had been shot dead on road in daylight but there was no one guilty. “We want action against senior CTD officials who ordered the operation.

MURDER: A prayer leader was found shot dead three days after his abduction from Kamoke.

The family of deceased Abdul Rauf (37) said they had no enmity.

Published in Dawn, October 26th, 2019