HYDERABAD, Sept 19: The Mehran University Teachers Association (MUTA) observed two-hour token pen-down strike on Wednesday in protest against the polices of Higher Education Commission.

The university teachers demanded up-gradation of non-PhD professors and associate professors, withdrawal of Model University Ordinance (MUO) and appointment of in-service professors as vice-chancellors instead of army generals and retired bureaucrats.

Teachers in Sindh University also observed a two-hour token strike from 10am to 12 noon on the call given by the Federation of All-Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association.

DEMO: A large number of students staged a demonstration outside the press club on Wednesday in protest against the administration of the Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam.

Student leaders, Mustafa Khoso, Atta Vistro and Safdar Tunio accused the university’s vice-chancellor of playing with students’ future by having the word “Supplementary” printed on their degrees.

They complained that the university’s hostels had no facility of clean drinking water and the library faced acute shortage of books but the fees had been raised without any reason.

They had been protesting for past two weeks but to no avail, they said and warned that they would observe a 150-hour hunger strike without break starting from Friday.