SSP Operations, other high ups visit educational institutions
- January 25, 2016, 9:45 pm
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HQ City Report
QUETTA: The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations, Waheedullah Khattak along with other concerned high ups visited different educational institutions including the universities in Quetta.
They visited the University of Balochistan (UoB), Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University (SBKWU) and Bolan Medical College (BMC).
During the visit, they met the heads of the institutions and discussed with them the security measures adopted or to be adopted there.
While according to the sources, the police high ups termed the security situation and measures of the IT University quite satisfactory, the situation of other institutions was questionable. The stress was laid on taking further security measures in other universities and the BMC making it foolproof.
City Desk adds:
Balochistan government has decided to establish a special force to be deployed at university campuses across the province in the aftermath of the brutal attack on the Bacha Khan University in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Charsadda town last week.
“The new force would be subservient to vice chancellors,†Akbar Hussain Durrani, Balochistan home secretary, told Dawn.com. He however said administrative powers over the force would be with police.
Durrani said 60 personnel will be deployed at each university, adding that the force will be well equipped.
The decision comes in the aftermath of a terrorist attack at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, which claimed more than 20 lives, when unidentified gunmen opened fire on students and faculty members as they gathered at the school for a poetry recital to commemorate the death anniversary of the activist and leader whom the school is named after.
