In my 16 plus years teaching in a public sector Uni in Pak, I have seen the damage ban on student unions did to our students. Instead of students from diff backgrounds coming together in a Student Union, we had students collecting together under ethnic & sectarian groups

Causing polarisation. What is needed is not a ban on Student Unions but clear rules - which Unis shd enforce - so that student unions function effectively as they do in other parts of the world - learning tolerance & accommodation of the other.

Weapons came on campuses despite ban on unions bec Uni authorities were unable to enforce rules. We now have all manner of ethnic & sectarian groupings in our Unis incl in hostels. Weapons and violence continue to evade campuses. Student Unions were never the issue to begin with.