January 23, 2008	Wednesday	Muharram 13, 1429

ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The Students Action Committee (SAC), Rawalpindi-Islamabad chapter, has vowed to continue the struggle for obtaining genuine democracy and human rights in the country and pledged not to bow down before state repression.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, SAC convener Alia Amirali said revival of students’ activism in the aftermath of emergency rule and assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was a historic and welcome development after three decades of de-politicisation.

She said the mobilised and politically vibrant youth were hallmark of a healthy society, adding that the students of the Barani University Rawalpindi and Federal Urdu University were involved vigorously in the students’ movement at a time when the country was undergoing through its worst crises.

Ms Amirali said a majority of the people were convinced that the current government had failed completely to run the affairs of the country at all fronts.

She warned that the ongoing struggle would be disseminated to all the educational institutions and reiterated the demand for restoration of pre-November 3 judiciary, holding of free and fair elections and stopping the political victimisation.