islamabad - The professors, alumni and staff of Pakistan’s top university will be out on street protesting against the non-demarcation of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) land.

The first demonstration will be in front of Islamabad Press Club on December 8, 2016 (Thursday) at 4pm, said the sources in the university.

They said that numerous land-grabbing incidents have taken place and the Capital Development Authority did not move for demarcation of the university land which should have been done decades ago.

The university administration has sent a number of reminders for the demarcation of the land, but to no avail and another reminder to the Mayor, Sheik Anser Aziz will be dispatched on Monday (today).

The administration has not received any response from the authority since November 12, 2016 and the QAU community has no choice but to come out and stage a peaceful demonstration, officials of the university said on condition of anonymity.

According to the details, the issue of demarcation of 200 acres of the university land is pending between the university and CDA since years and in the latest turn of events, the latter did not nominate a representative and constitute a joint investigation team to resolve the issue amicably.

Around one and a half month before, the QAU VC had asked the chairman CDA to resolve the demarcation issue so that the land could be saved from the mafia.

According to the sources, interior ministry had sought constitution of the JIT and a report at the earliest, but the high-ups at the CDA are yet to nominate a representative for the team despite repeated reminders from the university in this regard.

Vice Chancellor of the state-run university in November had publicly called upon the federal government to take notice of the encroachment on its land without further delay. He said that the land grabbers had already occupied some 200 acres of their land.

According to the officials, a former Senate Chairman occupies 54 kanals of the encroached land. In 1967, the CDA allotted 1,709 acres for the establishment of the QAU and the then government paid its price.

But on the spot the university got only 1,509 acres. The remaining 200 acres are under illegal possession of land mafia, the officials alleged. The university complained to the cabinet members and the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau but to no avail. “We have no other option but to come to streets to record our protest against illegal occupation of the university land”, said an officials at the university.

Quaid-i-Azam University Alumni Association has also decided to form a delegation of its senior members in order to meet members of the federal cabinet, parliamentarians and senior government officials over increasing incidents of encroachment at the university’s land.

The delegation will convey its concern and apprise about the gravity of the situation.