Observer Report
London
Engaging the youth and students is what the government must do instead of muzzling their opinions and registering first information reports (FIR), tweeted Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday. Speaking on the aftermath of the Student Solidarity March held across the country on Nov 29, he stated: “The nation’s future hinges on the youth. Their voices must be respected and demands heeded”.
The tweet comes two days after Punjab police arrested Alamgir Wazir, former chairman of the Pukhtun Council and registered cases against the organisers and participants of the recently held Student Solidarity March on sedition charges. Student unions in colleges and universities had been banned across the country through a martial law order by military ruler Gen Ziaul Haq on Feb 9, 1984.
