[4] Because of the demographics of the country, the population under age 30 has been very involved in these public actions, and the youth and student organizations have been prominent.
Meanwhile, the struggle between the Marxist and religious student associations grew, with both sides creating their own respective alliances, though both groups suffered from political infighting and splintering.
The textbooks used in the majority of public schools were written in the 1980s and they tend to lead students to be more susceptible to adaptation to radical forms of Islam.
This was attributed to a large part of the student population getting educated for technical jobs that are not in high demand in the country.
[11] The student federations of Pakistan have been known to engage in fights over political, religious, ethnic, nationalist, and sectarian differences.
It is the only student organization in Pakistan that is present throughout the country and Bangladesh, and at various levels i.e., schools, colleges, universities.
[citation needed] It is unclear when the Pakistan Islamic Students Federation (PISF or APISF) was founded, though its internet presence was established on February 24, 2012.
The Goal of this Organization is to set the lives of the young generation in accordance with the teachings of Quran and Mohammad-o-Aal-e-Mohammad (as), so that they may become good Human beings and Momins, and may defend the Highness of the Holy Religion and the geographical and ideological boundaries of Pakistan.
[19] and Rana Hassnain leading in Punjab as senior vice president along with coordinator Green Tiger.
[22] The Struggle (Urdu: طبقاتی جدوجہد) is a Trotskyist, Leftist organization in Pakistan which was found in Netherlands by Lal Khan and other Pakistani activists.
It holds its regularly congress which are held every year to analyse the performance of The Struggle and to formulate new strategies for social change and revolution.
The groups stated mission is to, "bring back the balance of power to the students in universities which is formerly lost."
[24] The group is a self-proclaimed revolutionary left and centre-left student federation whose stated goals are to: In 2008 the group was reorganized during the Lawyers' Movement, and now primarily operates out of Punjab, though its values remain mostly the same and just like the old DSF gave birth to the powerful NSF recently in a similar way the NSF has helped give birth to the programme of the newly formed Insaf Student Federation (ISF).
[26] It also has the separate Trotskyist-Marxist wing, " International Marxist Tendency (IMT); the student wing, the Peoples Students, a student-outreach organization with the goal is Stalinism but recently its parent party is considered pro-American in Pakistani politics unlike the ISF and PTI.
The All Pakistan Muttahida Students Organization Urdu: (آل پاکستان متحدہ اسٹوڈنٹس آرگنائزیشن) (APMSO) is notable for being the student organization that created Pakistan's 4th Notional Political Party, the Mohajir Quami Movement, now called the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
[27][28] APMSO was founded by Altaf Hussain along with other students include Azeem Ahmed Tariq, Dr. Imran Farooq and others on Sunday, June 11, 1978 at Karachi University.
While the APMSO platform has some liberal elements to it, at its core it is the ethnic political party of the Muhajir, an Urdu speaking people who immigrated from India in 1947.