MMA’s decision!
- Imtiaz Ahmed, Karachi

I WAS shocked to learn the MMA’s decision to segregate girl students in Khyer Medical College, Peshawar.

Due to this, these students and their parents are in a great fix, especially concerning the location of the separate campus that is three kilometres away from their hostel.

No medical amenities exist near the new campus while commuting between the campus and hostel will be cumbersome for the students.

If the MMA government segregates girls in colleges today - tomorrow they can completely ban education for women.

Hence we should strongly condemn this act. And if the MMA government really believes in gender differences, then it should build a new building for the male students and displace them, instead of the females.

This move to segregate female medical students from the males will result in a complete fiasco, as neither NWFP nor the other provinces have separate hospitals for women. Which means the female medical students will eventually have to work alongside male doctors in hospitals, causing this segregation futile.

The decision to segregate male and female students portrays that this government does not believe in the equality of the genders.
They still hold the archaic belief that women are a different species that can’t survive without man.

And if they do venture to do so, they will face hazards. If the government is really worried about the maladjustment of boys and girls in colleges, then rather than wasting time and energy on such trivial matters, it should address problems at the grassroots’ level - i.e. primary education, providing a conducive and sound educational environment for all students.

Once this is achieved, co-education will not be an issue. The MMA government has involved itself in unnecessary problems such as banning advertisement boards, cable television (ludicrously, only in the month of Ramadan) and now the segregation of girl students in Khyber Medical College.

May I ask the MMA government why it turns a blind eye to the more important issues like poverty, unemployment, inflation, illiteracy and corruption?●

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