Can the educated youth of today lead tomorrow’s Pakistan?
Across the world, student unions and university politics are considered the nursery for future leaders. Even in Pakistan, many political leaders have risen in national politics through the ladder of student unions in universities and colleges across the country. According to Dr Kaiser Bengali, a leading economist and former student leader, ‘People like Meraj Mohammad Khan were very powerful in the early [Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto] regime. Even now, in the present government, there are leaders who were former student leaders. For example, Fauzia Wahab was a very prominent student leader in her time.’ However, it is also true that none of these student leaders rose to the position of party chairpersons or premiers because of the hereditary nature of politics in our country. Today, Bilawal Zardari Bhutto is the chairman of the ruling party in the country, not on merit, but because his mother was the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). But dynastic politics cannot be the solution in a fl
