Media watch: Unhappy students

Media discusses the demands of the students and teachers who staged a protest against privatization of their colleges.

Media watch is a daily round-up of key articles featured on news websites, hand-picked by The Express Tribune web staff.

Protesting students

The handling of the protest itself showed that the peace of the MPAs was left undisturbed, even if the cost was a baton charge of the architects of the nation as well as the future generation which will have its running in future. Some MPAs have lied about their degrees, and thus cannot be expected to know about colleges or their problems. (nation.com.pk)

Battlefield: Assembly

While teachers’ organisations need to realise that they stand to lose public sympathy if they allow their protests to be taken over by groups with political agendas, one would also call on the government to give a patient hearing to the case being presented by the teaching community which has been pressing the issue for months without being heard. (pakistantoday.com.pk)

Students`protest

To another set of observers, though, the most remarkable aspect to the episode was the violence with which the police eventually blocked the protesters. The protesters were also not averse to a fistfight or two or to burning down a few vehicles, but the police action most certainly betrayed the guilt of a force that had reacted late and which then over-compensated for the delay in typically brutal manner. (dawn.com)