FAST tore down and burnt!

Category: City
Written by: Ammar (on January 10, 2008 - 08:29 AM)

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The National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST), Karachi Campus has been a center of excellence in professional education. On December 27, 2007, the university located on the outskirts of Karachi was ransacked, looted and burnt. FAST was tore down and now has to bear multi-million rupee losses.

It is painful to see such an esteemed educational institution being targeted and looted by protestors.

The university lost new computers worth millions of ruppees, out of which computers worth around 1 million have been recovered by the area police. Sigh! As an eye-witness, I saw the university black and almost all glass broken. Some say around a thousand people wrecked havoc on the campus, overpowering the guards.

The cafe was black on the inside, the counter had been broken. This university, where almost all registration process was automated, now works manually, with only a few computers at the disposal of the university's administration.

What does targeting professional educational institutions indicate? What will they do of the Frequency generators and the oscilloscopes? God knows best! I see a planned controversy behind the wreckage of key Pakistani infrastructure.

I wish everything returns to normal soon, as the hustle bustle of mainitenance work was encouraging!

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