More thoughts on the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI) (website now down): The Taliban are settling into Buner and reports also have them seeping into surrounding districts, including the Swapi where this elite science and technology college is located. So how might life at the college change if/when the Taliban take over?
The college touts its extra-curricular, student-run and student-operated professional societies as a dominant feature of campus life and as laboratories where students develop leadership and management skills ‘to become the CEOs of tomorrow.’
Unfortunately for GIKI student body and alums who take pride in their alma mater, many of these societies may run afoul of the Taliban’s sensibilities. For example, the Cultural Dramatics & Entertainment Society and the Media Club will likely be looked upon with much scorn and disbanded, the NAQSH Arts Society will definitely be closed, as will the Literary & Debating Society and the Environmental Awareness society, since environmentalism is looked upon by extremists as a pagan religion. And given the likelihood that the Taliban will not allow a co-ed school to continue to exist as such, any girls currently studying on campus would probably be sent home – and so the Women Engineers Society will cease to exist too.
