[FONT=Times New Roman]Pakistan’s educational institutes produced several eminent political leaders, who got their first training from colleges or universities and still student unions playing their role in nurturing young generation for the future. But at the same time some students unions playing dubious role, as they are driving young generation towards extremism, the clear example is Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), what they are doing in Punjab University is dreadful. Once again, the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Their list of offenses is long and exhaustive, and their thug-like hold over the Punjab University (PU) has devastated this once premier institution.
[FONT=Times New Roman] In increasingly intolerant societies such as ours, educational institutes hold the only remaining vestiges of liberal culture and reform. With a mafia like the IJT virtually reigning over the campus, all efforts at producing an enlightened, contemporary generation of professionals bites the dust. However, the PU administration has yet to do anything substantial about this state-within-a-state situation. we must now acknowledge that as a nation reaping the misery of fundamentalism, it is now unacceptable to endorse or even overlook the IJT and their mafia rule. From beating up students whose only crime is talking to the opposite gender, opposing recreational activities and maliciously countering every attempt at progress and modernization, the IJT is a medieval throwback. It is time the PU authorities and the government cracked down on an organization that is as radically motivated as the very Taliban who are bombing us to kingdom come.