ISLAMABAD
The Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan has urged the universities to institute effective protocols and programmes to curb opportunities of radicalisation of students and universities’ staff while strengthening security arrangements on campuses.
In a letter issued to vice chancellors, rectors and heads of universities, the chairman HEC has said that “some of the recent acts of violence and terrorism in the country have exposed the involvement of university students in such disastrous incidences. This is quite unfortunate and underscores that intolerance, radicalisation, and extremism is on the rise, and universities present no exception to this ominous challenge.”
The letter states that HEC has been constantly sensitising the top leadership of the universities of possible security threats, its manifestations and how negatives potencies plan, approach and organise such brutalities.
