Editor’s Note: Campaign For Access to Internet and Education Will Continue
Last week, after many months of campaigning for access to internet and the right to education, students in Quetta faced the wrath of the state. Failing to provide any concrete solutions to resolve this longstanding issue, state authorities felt compelled to baton charge and arrest student protestors to suppress their simmering resentment.
Student Solidarity Protest 2020
Pandemic, violence, and state atrocities; these words perfectly sum up the first half of this year. Sadly these words are not new in our discourse. We have faced numerous such incidents of torture, disappearances and arrests. The online classes introduced by the government during the pandemic have amplified the deep fault lines in our education…
It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness
Salman Sikandar It was one of the same old mundane day of spring 2017 in the institution which has stood as the edifice of British colonialism for more than one hundred and fifty years. Government College University not just represents the British colonialism by its gothic structure only but also takes pride in the colonial…
Online Readiness: Under Construction
Mahnoor Nasir I am a student and a teacher. My interaction with academia, therefore, is twofold. I hold power and power is exercised on me. As a student, I am victim of the faulty online classes and as a teacher I must follow the university guidelines to continue teaching without regard for students as individuals…
Baluchistan Students Woes
NAWAZ ELLAHI Internet is a crucial facility in today’s modern world and has become a basic need for all of us. Sadly, for last five years, the students of Baluchistan’s districts are deprived of basic internet facility. Meanwhile HEC (Higher Education Commission) announced to initiate online classes in the universities owing to outbreak of covid-19…
