Unsafe campuses: Silence, fear and abuse - Pakistan Observer

Unsafe campuses: Silence, fear and abuse - Pakistan Observer

UNIVERSITIES are hailed as bastions of intellect—spaces where knowledge thrives, reason prevails and progress is inevitable. Yet, this ideal is nothing more than a carefully crafted illusion. Beneath the polished rhetoric of academic excellence lies a grim reality: power is wielded to exploit rather than educate and silence is systematically enforced. For thousands of students, university life is not a journey of intellectual awakening but a qui…