http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20104\20\story_20-4-2010_pg11_4
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: International Islamic University observed a complete strike on Monday in protest against physical torture and public humiliation of a female student at the hands of Islami Jamiat Tuleba (IJT).
A group of female students of SMS Department was taking snaps in the Engineering Block when Abdullah, an activist of IJT, accompanied by others, came there to tell them that photography is haram. Eyewitnesses said Abdullah did not stayed content with just preaching but went ahead to beat the girl who was taking snaps up badly, as if delivering instant justice.
University sources said it was not the first time that Abdulah subjected a woman to humiliation; he had done it twice in the past but got away with it. Once he hit two girls in library and then tried to scare a female teacher out of a seminar.
All students parties sans IJT have put up their single demand before the university administration: send Abdullah out of campus.
Sources said family of the victimized girl don't want to publicize the event as it will amount to rubbing salt in their wounds. Helpless, as any common citizens would have been in such a situation, they are in front of the beards, the sources said.
Though IJT has erected banners distancing themselves from Abdullah, they did not disown him to join all other parties in protest against the deed.
A senior faculty member said there has been a vacuum created in the education sector and rogue elements like IJT just sneak into this vacuum.
Another said now the government policy is against the IJT, so it is letting all student parties to get together against it. He feared that such acts may fail to eliminate IJT which has now taken roots.
