KARACHI: The Sindh government’s decision to overturn the ban on student unions, which was announced four months ago, gave students in the province hope after four decades of waiting for representation.
They hoped that the historic law would help rectify some of the harm that had been done during the forty years that student federations had been compelled to stay out of the picture, as well as shape the future of student leadership.
However, the lack of implementation that has followed the said legislation, appears to have come as a rude awakening for the province’s student body that had been pinning its hope on the reformed law.
Owing to this, various student issues, such as unfair tuition fee hike, lack of facilities like transportation, boarding rooms and drinking water, in addition to harassment cases and anti-terrorism FIRs lodged by intuitions against protesting students, have once again started to pile with no outlet for reprieve
