The Islami Jamiat Talaba, student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, organised another annual dinner at a Punjab University hostel on Sunday night, again defying federal and provincial government directives not to allow such student groups to organise university events. The IJT has previously managed other dinners in PU hostels. PU Hall Council chairman Prof Mugheesuddin Sheikh, PU IJT nazim Allah Buksh Leghari, hostel warden Dr Mujahid Mansoori and hostel superintendent Dr Javed Ahmed attended the dinner. Annual dinners are meant to be managed by a student committee, but the invitation cards for the dinner bore the IJT logo and announced that the IJT nazim would attend, PU students said. Asked why the IJT was allowed to organise the event, the hostel warden said he had asked Prof Sheikh about policy, but he had responded that each hostel had the onus to stop such events. "We are unable to stop certain political elements. We have no administrative order to do so," he said. "How can we stop these elements when the university administration, including the vice chancellor, are unable to control them?" He said he had asked the hostel superintendent to 'minimise' the IJT's involvement. "Taking action on our own would have been a great risk, especially when the administration is silent on the issue." VC Lt Gen (r) Arshad Mahmood and Prof Sheikh were unavailable for comment. Female students of the PU College of Fine Arts have made a written complaint to the governor and the VC about harassment by IJT activists. College guards have been directed to stop such activists, but one guard said it was unfair to expect the guards to take care of something the administration was doing nothing about. He said the directions had not been given in writing.