MQM-Pakistan convener addresses APMSO at KU

Students must pledge to make efforts to make the country a welfare state: Sattar

KARACHI: The dream behind the establishment of All Pakistan Muttahida Students Organisation (APMSO) would materialise soon provided the activists remain attentive to their education said Muttahida Qaumi Movement - Pakistan (MQM-Pakistan) convener Farooq Sattar on Monday.
Addressing a gathering organised on the occasion of the Independence Day by APMSO- Pakistan at the Arts Lobby in University of Karachi (KU), Sattar demanded that the state should give the students their right to politics besides health, education, safety and employment.



He was flanked by other senior leaders of his party, Sindh Assembly opposition leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan, Aminul Haq and Muhammad Shahid as the lobby was full to the brim with students like previous years to celebrate the Independence Day.
"Education is the key to progress and prosperity of this country," he said, adding that among others it was the pressure of the student politics that forced the Centre to listen to the demands of the people of this city. "Earlier we used to travel to Islamabad to plead for our demands," he said, adding that today it is vice versa.



Sattar asked students to pledge that they would make efforts to make the country a welfare state as it was envisaged by its founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah. "A country cannot progress without taking its students on board."
Hassan said that consciously awake nations learn from their mistakes in the past for a better tomorrow. "Educational institutions play a vital role in the making of strong nations. They act as pillars and without them there is no progress."



cAPMSO is the mother organisation of the MQM. Similar to the splits in the mainstream party, the student organisation has also split into groups - and the most recently emerged groups associate themselves with either the MQM - Pakistan spearheaded by Sattar or the pro-Altaf Hussain London group led by Nadeem Nusrat.
After the event, a clash between the activists of the APMSO-Pakistan and Imamia Students Organisation also took place, during which some students reportedly sustained wounds.