PU teachers warn govt of besieging CM House

LAHORE

Punjab University (PU) teachers strongly protesting on Monday warned the government of besieging the Chief Minister’s House and observing sit-ins on The Mall and Canal Road if notices to demolish teachers’ houses were not withdrawn immediately. 

An emergent meeting of PU Academic Staff Association (ASA) attended by hundreds of teachers was held at the varsity’s Al-Raazi Hall. ASA President Dr Hassan Mobeeen Alam, Secretary Dr Mahboob Hussain and Vice-President Dr Abid Hussain Ch presided over the meeting where teachers expressed their resolve to opt to ‘any extreme’ to save their hard earned houses constructed in PU Housing Society on Raiwind Road after paying consecutive installments during the last 13 years. 

PU teachers urged the CM Punjab and Vice-Chairman LDA Khawaja Ahmad Hassan to honour their promises made with the PU teachers in front of hundreds of teachers. They alleged that reportedly in order to save the land of Punjab Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman and other politicians, PU teachers were being threatened with vacating the land for Metro Train Offices which could be constructed elsewhere on nearby available vacant lands. 

The meeting also decided that a body of senior teachers would take up the matter with the concerned government officers otherwise a protest move would be launched after the scheduled ASA meeting on Tuesday (today).  

Later, the teachers held a protest demonstration while carrying banners inscribed with their demands.