PESHAWAR, Nov 16: The Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) has called upon the federal and provincial governments to announce date for student union elections, revoke changes made in Islamiat syllabus and revise the recent increase in the admission fees.

Addressing a news conference on Thursday, IJT’s provincial president Atiqur Rahman recalled that in 1992 the then chief justice of the Supreme Court had lifted ban on student unions by suggesting that there should be a representative forum for students which they could exploit to struggle for resolution of their problems.

He said that according to the court’s observation the government should immediately announce schedule for elections of student unions. He called for unity among students. The IJT leader said that the proposed forum was already there in the form of student unions which Gen Zia banned in 1984.

He said that on the one hand President Musharraf had given the right of vote to18-year-old youths, on the other students were denied the right of having unions. Mr Rahman announced that a campaign would be launched for restoration of unions, dispensing with the Agha Khan Board, halting `secularisation’ of the education system and getting the fee increase withdrawn.