Dow Medical College Elections 1983. NSF Victory.
The Student’s Union election in the year 1983 was the last Union in Dow Medical College.
Union activity in Colleges and Universities was banned after that.
The Students Union of 1982 consisted of: (please correct if this information is in error)
President: Raheel Rasheed Khan
General Secretary Nasir Suleman.
The class of 1990 that started classes in 1984 never saw any Union elections.
(Above information kindly provided by Dr. Masroor A.Q. Khan, Dowite 1990 and Dr. Syed Fahim Hassan, Dowite 1983)
Read more about these times on an excellent article by Nadeem Paracha published in DAWN in July 2013. Here is the link.
http://www.dawn.com/news/
Amin H. Karim MD
” Ziaul Haq dictatorship banned student unions and parties in 1984, this did not really mean that student parties stopped operating on campuses or student union elections came to a halt.What the ban meant was that the dictatorship scrapped the 1974 Ordinance and thus rendered student union elections as unofficial, localised events not recognised or funded anymore by the government.For example, before the Ordinance, the dates and dynamics of student union elections were decided by the administrations of the colleges and the universities. After the Ordinance these were decided by the government.The Ordinance decreed that the annual event of student union elections be held on a single date/month of each year across all state-owned universities and colleges.So when Zia scraped the Ordinance in 1984, the elections once again became the sole prerogative of college and university administrations.The reason that fewer student union elections were held after 1984 was not as much due to Zia’s ban. It had more to do with the incidents of violence on campuses that had grown two-fold after Zia’s military coup in July 1977 and his regime’s crackdown on anti-Zia student groups” Nadeem Paracha
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