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Incidents of Violence by Jamiat in the past one year due to the absence of Student Unions & elected representatives on campuses.
Trigger warning: Violence and Harassment

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#RestoreStudentUnions
It is important to understand how fringe groups like Jamiat operate at public universities and how they use unabashed violence to perpetuate fear in the hearts of the students.

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#ShameOnIJT
This is the direct result of Zia-ul-Haq's Islamisation policies which empowered Jamiat in the 80's after the ban on Student Unions. Violence was introduced on campus to terrorise students who wanted critical thinking and debate on their campuses.

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The representatives of right -wing group Islami Jamiat Tulba which is famous for using violence to terrorise students, in an interview with a local channel said that our comrades call @ammaralijan and other intellectuals on the campus,terming them as ‘anti-state’.
2/11 Even though we don’t respond to the baseless & illogical accusations from an organisation that has a history of siding with and recruiting students for Taliban,we do believe that we should speak for our allies and comrades who have always supported students in their demands.
3/11 Furthermore, on the contrary to organisations like IJT, we believe that intellectual growth, and critical thought in students is the most important thing to be learnt in university. However, right wing student groups and the state has continuously tried to stop students
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