Students and the future April 6, 2021 If we want a future for our country, we have to look after the students who will build it as they move into professional roles and into decision-making places in their own realms. In this respect, the fact that students from the former Fata areas had to stage a six-hour long sit-in and hunger strike outside the Punjab Governor House in Lahore on Sunday to seek their demands that their scholarships at Islamic University Bahawalpur be restored is an indication of the manner in which the government treats students. They are generally looked at as miscreants up to no good, with little attention given to their demands and their very realistic requirements or requests. We have seen students protest previously so as to lower fees at universities, where they have suddenly been increased, or to hold exams on an equitable basis or not change the syllabus suddenly, or to ensure that students in remote areas, such as the former Fata territories and Balochistan, are not mistreated or put at a disadvantage because they do not have WiFi and are therefore unable to access online classes.