Karachi University evacuated over reported bomb threat, BDS called in

Posted on at


KARACHI: The University of city was exhausted on Wed when police received reports of 3 bombs at completely different spots on field, DawnNews reportable.

Students and college were gripped in concern and panic throughout evacuation because the news unfold.

Meanwhile, the bomb disposal squad and an important contingent of police personnel reached the University field.

Police sources told DawnNews that a telephone call relating to the presence of 3 bombs at city University (KU) was received on Rescue fifteen, the police emergency range. The supply additional that the BDS was known as in when the bomb report.

Security considerations at element
After the attack on Charsadda's Bacha Khan University earlier this year, instructional establishments across the country are on high alert.

However, associate examination of KU's boundary wall, touch one,350 acres, has shown that the structure has utterly fallen in least at 2 places. The house created by the fallen wall is sufficient enough for an outsized truck to meet up with. the purpose is found to be used as a waste selling ground by individuals living within the neighbourhood.

At different points, the peak of the wall is as low as 5 feet. Besides, the wall has additionally developed massive holes. large bushes, an outsized range of economic nurseries and automobile repair workshops on the boundary wall square measure another security risks the field faces.

According to sources, the administration had in Jan did not take any concrete live to enhance field security even when the military Public college tragedy and also the targeted killing of 2 element academics despite the actual fact that it received Rs300 million from the upper Education Commission (HEC) throughout the past year to enhance field security however did not employ it.

The sources same associate inspector of the element watch and guard department had earlier complained concerning the broken boundary in writing in August 2015 however no action was taken.

The element administration unskillfulness, sources same, may even be gauged from the actual fact that the university had however to unharness the Rs70,000 that had been requested six months past by its own department for building the boundary wall of the foreign students’ hostel.

The installation of police work cameras has additionally been unfinished for the past seven months.

Currently over twenty seven,000 students square measure registered with the element whereas the quantity of teaching and non-teaching employees is over four,000.

Know more: element susceptible to terror attacks
« Back

Rewrite again

Next »



About the author

160