LAHORE: June 27, 2013: The teachers and students of the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS), University of the Punjab, Thursday took out a protest rally to condemn attack on Quaid’s Ziarat residency.

The students were carrying placards and banners inscribed with various slogans like; join hands against terrorism; Quaid lives in our hearts and nothing can remove him from there; BLA should know every heart in Pakistan is Quaid residency; there is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

ICS In-charge Director Dr. NoshinaSaleem led the rally while faculty members DrAfira Hamid, Maliha Hassan Laghari, Sana Naveed Khan, ShafiaBhatti, UzmaAsghar, administrative staff and a large number of students participated in the demonstration. The students and teachers chanting slogans marched from ICS to Institute Of Business and Information Technology.

The faculty members reiterated the PU Academic Staff Association’ demand of constructing replica of Quaid’s residency in all five provinces of country as well as in PU new campus, which is already named as Quaid-e-Azam campus.

The emotionally charged teachers and students expressed their patriotism, and solidarity giving a strong message to the internal miscreants and foreign hands that all Pakistanis stand united and they wouldn’t allow any conspiracy against the unity of Pakistan and Quaid is a symbol of unity among all federating units of the country.

Addressing the protesters, the director said that the attack on the Quaid’s residency is a matter of utter embarrassment for the entire nation. “The building was the historical legacy of our great hero, but it doesn't stand destroyed in real sense.