HYDERABAD, Feb 27: The Islami Jamiat-i-Tulba has said that a proposal to constitute a student parliament can only prove viable and effective if it comprised elected representatives of students.

The IJT warned that it would resist any government move to constitute a dummy students parliament. Saying this at a news conference here on Thursday, IJT president Nasrullah Goraya demanded that the government should lift ban on student union and restore the democratic right of the students.

He said that the students' problems had increased manifold after ban on their unions and added that hooliganism and clashes between students' groups had become the order of the day.

Elaborating, he said that no student organisation existed in Quaid-i-Azam University but its six boy and one girl students had been killed in clashes. He said that student union had been banned with a view to improving educational atmosphere but it had worsened due to privatisation of educational institutions.

Answering a question, he said that his organisation was waiting for details of students' parliament proposed by President Gen Pervez Musharraf. He, however, made it clear that if the government tried to convert the proposed parliament into a subservient organization, the IJT would resist the move.

He rejected the higher education policy and said that the government was not sincere in bringing about educational reforms. He deplored that education was being commercialized and the doors to higher education were being closed for poor students.