Students Rise in the Face of Emergency

It’s the week before finals at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and, like at any college campus across America, the labs are chock-full of tousled students glued to computer screens and guzzling coffee as the night ticks on.
But these students are not just cramming for exams or writing term papers. They’re coordinating a city-wide campus movement against General Musharraf’s imposition of emergency, the dissolution of the judiciary, clampdown of the independent media and the detention of over 3,000 lawyers, human rights activists and other civilians on the pre-text of anti-terrorism. Manal Ahmad (’09) reports for North Gate News Online.
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