Dhaka, Mar 4 (Just News): Enraged by the attack on Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, the students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology(SUST) have been staging protest programmes on the campus today.
Dr Iqbal, a noted writer and a vocal advocate of secularism, was injured in a knife attack by a youth on SUST campus yesterday and the law enforcers suspect that the attacker might have a link with radical groups.
Some 3,000 students of the university formed a human chain on the campus around 9:30am protesting the attack on the eminent writer, our Sylhet correspondent reports from the spot.
They will submit two memoranda to the government and will also launch a mass signature campaign.
The students will also bring out a silent rally in the campus at 6:00pm.
Some other platforms of the university -- SUST Teachers’ Association, Employees Association -- also held separate protest programmes on the campus today.
Contacted, the President of SUST Teachers’ Association Professor Syed Hasanuzzan said, “The attack is an assault on the core of free-thinking and the spirit of Liberation War.”
He urged that the masterminds and those involved with the attack will be identified and tried without any mercy.
SUST Proctor Zahir Uddin Ahmed said the question of insecurity applies to all who want to carry out free-thinking and secularism.
“The inability to curb this sort of militancy is a matter of grave concern,” he said.
(Justnews/ys/1340hr)
