RAWALPINDI, Aug 20: Mutahida Talaba Mehaz (United Students Front) has rejected the government’s Task Force on Higher Education terming it as anti-student.

The Front, a conglomerate of several students unions, said the task force would increase the problems of students and teachers and make education the sole prerogative of the high class. It would close all doors of education for the poor people, student leaders said.

“The task force, a select group of people sitting in their glass palaces, should be abolished forthwith. Education policies should be framed by education experts, teachers and students’ representatives instead,” said the Mehaz chairman, Maqbool Ahmad Khan.

He said the task force had been established at the behest of IMF, World Bank and the US. No such dictation will be tolerated, they added.