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A security official is in custody and facing disciplinary action under military law following reports of a scuffle at Islamabad’s Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology (SUSIT), sources involved in the investigation said late Monday.
The individual allegedly discharged a weapon during a scuffle with protestors at the university’s Chattha Bakhtawar campus, where students had been agitating against the dismissal of a senior official and other varsity-related issues.
A video shared widely on social media of the incident shows a uniformed individual approaching a group of young men, who are reportedly SUSIT students. He is accompanied by a woman, who is said to be a university official.
The video showed the suspect hitting an individual with a stick and exchanging heated words with gathered protestors, following which a scuffle breaks out. An angry crowd surrounds the officer, and some individuals appear to assault him, following which he draws a pistol and points it at the crowd.
