NSF convention: Killing of Baloch students condemned

Restoration of unions, allocation for education at 10% of GDP demanded.


Our Correspondent February 22, 2012

KASUR:


The National Students Federation condemns the abductions and killings of Baloch Students Organisation (Azad) and demands an end to military operation in Balochistan, Arfan Chaudhry, NSF Punjab president, said on Wednesday.


He was addressing a convention organised by the federation in Kasur. Chaudhry said the NSF supported Baloch’s cause but appealed them to excercise caution in trusting the United States’s support for their struggle for independence. He said the US’s intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya had deteriorated the conditions of these countries instead of bringing about an improvement.

Earlier, the NSF Kasur body passed five resolutions demanding immediate restoration of student unions in public-sector education institutes in the country, pegging the Education budget at 10 per cent of the gross domestic product and an end to commercialisation of Education.

A press release issued by the organisation criticised the government for its failure to restore student unions and said it showed the government’s disinterest in restoration of democracy at the grassroots level. It said students from poor families had been deprived of quality education opportunities with privatisation of education sector. It urged students to move beyond their ethnic, linguistic and sectarian affiliations and unite at a national platform to seek improvements in the education sector.

Sabir Ali of the NSF and Aasim Sajjad Akhtar of the Workers Party were also present on the occasion.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 23rd, 2012.

COMMENTS (1)

Adnan | 12 years ago | Reply

My solutes to NSF.

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