HEC yet to reinstate student unions despite PM's nod

In the absence of the Student Unions, environment of the educational institutions could not be maintained peaceful, as was claimed earlier at the time of imposing ban on the Unions.

According to a research report, published by Center for Educational Research & Policy Analysis (CIRAPA), Pakistan, during the period of Student Unions (1947 to 1984) , 151 violence cases were recorded while during the period of ban on Union (1984 to 2004) 525 cases were recorded.

Similarly, before the ban period 13 students were killed but during the ban 165 students were murdered. Before imposing the ban, 284 students were arrested while during the ban period this figure was 7235 and 110 students were expelled while after that 985 students were expelled. It was observed that from 2004 to date these figures reached at horrible level.

In the absence of an organise body, students divided into the regional, linguistic, ideological bases thus widening the vacuum for conspiracies, violence and misunderstanding. To divide the students in different factions, administration of the educational institution however, succeeded to achieve their limited goals but they did not analyse that how much damaged they have caused to educational institutions.