Student bodies striving to enhance membership

Student bodies striving to enhance membership
Islamabad: With the lifting of ban on student unions by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, a number of organisations have set up camps at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) to woo students to join them.

A plenty of notices have been pasted on the university's main entrance and notice boards highlighting manifestos of these organisations and invitations for fresh memberships. Each notice promised to protect students' rights and interests.

The university is confronting different problems like its accreditation with the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), unavailability of transport and hostel, insufficient classrooms and unhealthy environment for education since its inception in 2002.

Imamia Students Organisation (ISO), Islami Jamiat Tulba (IJT), Pukhtoon Students Federation (PSF) and Muslim Students Federation (MSF) are prominent outfits that called for protection of students' rights and fresh memberships.

Hamza Ali, an MSF worker, said that the students were actively responding to calls of different organisations which would make the main union through elections after issuance of a formal notification for restoration of unions.

Aqeel Ahmed, a student of Physics Department, has been elected president of Applied Physics Society, which is the sole platform for students of this department to exhibit their abilities.

The students belonging to Northern Areas have arranged a rich dinner for newcomers from their area so that they could feel at home in the university. Daily Times