Tahir was a proud, intelligent, politically conscious, and unapologetic ultra-rightwing conservative. His memorandum reflected the retrograde feudal and military junta’s belief that the universities should be a primitive military barrack, where order, not the contestation of ideas, should reign… His submission, most significantly, informed the fascist-like recommendations of the Justice Mohammed Commission, which undermined academic freedom, […]
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