Karachi University Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Muhammad Ajmal Khan has decided to share details of all students with intelligence agencies for scrutiny after several recent discoveries of militants’ educated backgrounds, informed sources.
Moreover, the varsity will approve in its next academic council session a proposal for students to obtain ‘character certificates’ from police stations.
Police registered a case today against three suspected terrorists over a police encounter on Monday.
Meanwhile, in a meeting chaired by Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Sarosh Hashmat Lodhi, the administration of NED University decided to increase the security checks and CCTV cameras on the entrance and exit gates of the university, informed a NED spokesperson.
Security in charges, hostel wardens, and administrative staff was present in the meeting to review the security situation within the campus.
Police are searching for the suspected mastermind of the Eid-day attack on Khawaja Izharul Hassan, the opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly.
Police said that banned outfit Ansarul Shariah’s commander, Sarosh Siddiqui, who escaped a police raid on Monday, is a student of Karachi University.
Police are conducting raids across the city to nab Siddiqui, who is on the run. Sources said several persons have been arrested in the raids, including an MSc student.
