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The Murder of Students Unions in Pakistan
By Yaseen Azam

The Murder of Pakistan’s Student Union: General Zia was scared of socialist parties and the influence of the USSR in Pakistan and abolished the student organisations on the instructions of the 40th president of the USA, RW Reagan in 1983 as they were mostly leftist. General desired to support the USA and deployed Mujaheddin in Afghanistan and help the USA in a cold war with the Soviet Union and finally, they succeeded to failed USSR to inter Afghanistan.

Question: How much utility did Pakistan obtain?

Answer: Zero utility, moreover I’ve to say negative utility. For a time being Islamabad received dollars from W.District Colombia but it resulted devastating. It created two main issues, first one is, in tribal areas of Pakistan, Kalashan Kofe culture progressed more and more. The second one is, Sipa Salar imposed a ban on student unions and students fell into a lot of problems till now.

Question: How much utility did America obtain from the cold war by investing in Mujhahidins?

Answer:  This investment pulled the graph to maximum heights and in 1991′ USA succeeded to break its conventional rival, the Soviet union into 15 countries ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tadzhikistan (see Tajikistan ), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan).

Question: What benefits did Afghanistan gain by not entering the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

Answer: “Socialism is a scare word, they have hurled every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power, socialism is what they called social security, socialism is what they called farm price support,  socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance, socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labour organizations, socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people”.  (Harry S.Truman)

Afghanistan obtained zero utility. When their socialist party succeeded in Afghanistan, poor people became wealthy. Socialist government-imposed ban on private property and considered all the industries and lands as government property. There was free education and health. USA wished capitalist system over there and funded to eradicate socialist and communist parties finally the USA prospered to kill socialist leaders and succeeded to impose capitalist system over there.

“If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I would do is join a union”. (Franklin D Rosevelt) There are many problems in our universities and the government is not solving our problems. The students of  Karakoram International University Gilgit are protesting for 6 months but still, the government is not decreasing the fees since Gilgit Baltistan is a remote area and people can’t afford such heavy fees. Mir Pur University of Science and Technology has been damaged by recent earth quack and students still taking classes on the grounds. Medical and dental colleges are not increasing the quota of Gilgit Baltistan and Baluchistan. Islamic International University Islamabad is not providing hostels to most students and students pay high hostel rents.  EGP

We don’t have to press under external pressures. We have to refresh our student unions. It will provide better results. There must be a student union in all 4 provinces including Gilgit Baltistan and AJK.   The government conducts elections every year and elects a president, the government issues a stamp to the president. Without the stamp of the president, the university will not able to admit a student. University allows the president to approach the office of the Vice-Chancellor, secretary of education, and minister of education without permission. The elite class admits their children to commendations and blackmails government servants. If we will refresh the student union, it will provide rights to the deserving. It will bring leadership qualities and boost up the self-confidence of a student too. If the government had not banned the students’ unions, we would not have faced such problems. “When moist, this clay is a very rich buttery. ” (Allama Iqbal).