HYDERABAD, Dec 5: The local chapter of the Jamaat-i-Islami has threatened to launch a movement for the establishment of a university and medical and engineering colleges in the city “to remove sense of deprivation among the students.”

In a pamphlet distributed among people here on Monday, the general secretary of the party's Hyderabad chapter, Dr Fawad Ahmed, said that Hyderabad was the second biggest city of Sindh but it had been deprived of educational facilities since the inception of Pakistan.

He said that those who claimed to be the representatives of Hyderabad had not addressed the issue although they had remained in power for the past many years.

He said that 2,000 students from Hyderabad passed test for admission to the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology and professional departments of Sindh University but a large number of them could not get admission.

Dr Ahmed said that it was during the governorship of Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan that the seats reserved for Hyderabad students in the LUMHS were decreased by 10 and transferred to the People's University of Medical and Health Sciences.

He said that seats for Hyderabad students in the MUET were equal to those for students from Sanghar district.

Dr Ahmed demanded 100 per cent increase in seats for the district in the LUMHS, MUET and professional departments of Sindh.

When Lyari Medical University could be established in the presence of a medical university and a medical college in Karachi and engineering colleges could be set up in Khairpur and Larkana and Sindh university campuses in Badin and Mirpurkhas, why such institutes could not be established in Hyderabad, he argued.