PESHAWAR: Expressing serious concern over the arrangement of lecture for a ‘controversial analyst’ at the Islamia College University (ICU) campus, Amn Tehrik here Monday said the NWFP governor and ICU vice-chancellor were responsible for disturbing the peaceful environment of the university for which they should be removed from their offices.

Addressing a joint news conference here, former president of Peshawar High Court Bar Association Abdul Latif Afridi Advocate, Awami National Party leader Hashim Babar, women rights activist Rukhshanda Naz, Pakhtun Students Federation leader Asad Mayar, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party leader Dr Said Alam Mahsud, National Party leader Mukhtar Bacha, convener of Amn Tehrik Idrees Kamal and others said the university administration had invited Zaid Hamid, a ‘so-called’ analyst, to deliver speech in the university, which triggered violence on the university campus.

They alleged that Zaid Hamid was a controversial figure, who is also an enemy of peace. They declared that the Amn Tehrik had banned his entry into the province, where a lot of blood of the Pakhtuns had already been shed.

The leaders announced a coordination committee that would have contacts with other student organisations to promote peace in the region. They said Zaid Hamid was bent upon making the kids ‘terrorists’ and they would not allow him to accomplish his designs.

They also demanded of the ANP government to conduct a probe into the matter. The Amn Tehrik said the provincial government had claimed that the fight against terror would continue till the end of the last terrorist, then how this ‘biggest terrorist’ could come to a state-run university under official patronage.
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