Next generation of militants may emerge from academic institutes

Two stories caught my eyes recently — one published in Dawn and the other in BBC. Both their links are below
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The articles talk about how Universities and Academics need to keep an eye on students lest they get radicalized. Similar to PREVENT in the UK.
Radicalised? with what? ideas? and university i.e. the place exactly where ideas should be discussed and debated. Pakistani universities are defunct in thinking, there are no debates or discussions and since the 90s political ideas are feared by the government as a result political parties or political ideas are banned.
Government is using isolated examples like the ones mentioned in the article of Saad Aziz and creating atmosphere of fear to silence anyone who dare to think and question government policies. Remember — Pakistan is a country with serious issues of poverty and access to basic needs and human rights.
It is not a problem to tackle those who are talking about terrorism or planning to conduct terrorism however ideas that are considered extreme by the government are not necessarily bad ideas. Extremism and radicalisation are political terms and are used to describe those who do not conform to government sponsored view. So a student CAN disagree with National Action Plan or Pakistan alliance with US or participation in War of Terror and this is NOT extreme. They are citizen of this country and have every right to question, right to assembly and account their State without being labelled — AS LONG AS THEY ARE DOING IT PEACEFULLY.
Out of these ideas one hope that solution to many problems Pakistan is marred with will come. After all, almost all ideas which were later described as major victories in human rights were extreme — be it women right to own property or Vote in the West or the ideas that Prophet Muhammad SAW propagated in Makkah and Quresh considered them radical and extreme.
Or may be it is to do with the US sponsored CTD in Karachi?
