It has become a tabboo to show in politic when one is a student. It is considered something to have any connection with violence, kachehri, jail yatras and many other mythical consequences that have their basis in nothing but myths created by state agents to protect the political hegemony of the state. However, the…
Progressive Students Collective is holding Students Solidarity March on 26th November across Pakistan. Students Solidarity march is held annually to demand an end to the ban on student unions, functional Harassment Committees on Campuses and access to education for everyone including fees reimbursements and scholarships. Student Unions were banned in 1984 by the then Military…
Arooj Aurangzeb The word union is borrowed from old French and late Latin, meaning ‘one, unity/the state of being united or being undivided, uniting/action of uniting into one political body.’ If we are to remain true to the essence of the word ‘union,’ then student unions should be a platform where students of Pakistan and…
Hamza Wyne Bertolt Brecht once said “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participate in the political events. The imbecile doesn’t know that from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all.” These are the lines on which student unions are…
In a propitious move, Prime Minister Imran Khan alluded that Student Unions can be revived. Responding to the voice of the youth, manifested in the form of solidarity marches held around the country by Students Prime Minister on 1st December, 2019, just two days after the marches carried out by students on 29th November, 2019,…
Salman Sikandar As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic hit Pakistan, all universities began sending fee notifications to students, even though the so-called online classes they were conducting cannot be in any measure be equated with real classes. Some universities went so far that either they increased the fee, or they sent a full fee notification…
On this day in 1952, the East Pakistan Students’ Union was formed. Founded as the East Pakistan Students’ Union, the organization was formed from the embers of the Language Movement and served as the progressive vanguard of the student movement.It is one of the leading student organizations in Bangladesh. It is working for students and…
Arooj Aurangzeb The word union is borrowed from old French and Late Latin, meaning ‘one, unity/the state of being united or being undivided, uniting/action of uniting into one political body.’ If we are to remain true to the essence of the word ‘union,’ then student unions should be a platform where students of Pakistan and…
