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"Why such extreme protective measures? Are these preparations for some war? Is QAU anticipating that Changez Khan will invade again from Mongolia? Or that TTP is planning another APS-style attack? Terrorism was at a high level in Pakistan between 2002 and 2016. Suicide bombings targeted shopping malls, markets, and mosques in Islamabad but the university campus remained totally safe. While ethnic and religious student groups have clashed violently, there hasn’t been a single incident of terrorism on campus. Glaringly, the new walls are not for protecting QAU’s land from further encroachments. Of the original 1,709 acres given to the university by the government in the mid-1960s, roughly 300-400 acres have been stolen. Old land records have been tampered with and patwaris have been suitably bribed to change lathas. In January 2019, bulldozers were dispatched at then prime minister Imran Khan’s orders to demolish the house of a powerful politician who had seized the university’s land and built his mansion. They razed its boundary walls but some insider PTI-PPP deal led to their retreat two hours later. Last week, I drove past a board with ‘X’s residence’ freshly painted on it. Placed provocatively by the roadside, it is meant to be a slap in the face of all those who have fought to save the university’s land. While the obsession with securitisation has reached absurd limits at QAU, the bunker mentality is practically everywhere. Gated communities in cities, for example, are now ubiquitous as living spaces. Whether the intent is to create a moat around inequality, or perhaps for ethnic or sectarian reasons, low levels of social trust are manifest in a sense of besiegement. In Pakistan’s first few decades you could go anywhere from one part of a city to another, military cantonments excepted, without encountering any checkpoints. That is no longer possible. A fortress mentality is also visible — albeit to a lesser extent — in other universities across the country. Their physical environments have become less and less open. On many campuses, CCTV cameras track students, ostensibly for security reasons. The hidden agenda, however, is to regulate personal behaviour. At the core lies a fundamental question: what is university education designed to achieve? There are two widely different approaches. The first is that of the modern world. Except for those at the very bottom of the heap, universities from Europe to America and in China or India, seek to sharpen mental faculties across disciplines and create a mindset suited for an ever-changing world. Cultivation of critical faculties for evaluating facts, and making independent judgements, is the desired outcome. The second aim at breeding a dutiful student who is passive, obedient, defers readily to authority, and will duly memorise and reproduce whatever his professor teaches. In Pakistan’s cultural and religious environment, individualism is dangerous and undesirable. An authoritarian and moralising attitude, with the imposition of dress codes, seeks to limit personal freedoms to the barest minimum. Expressions of joy, such as celebrating Basant, are curtailed. Hence a tightly regulated, dour and walled-in physical environment works better than colourful openness. The pathological securitisation of Pakistan’s university campuses and their grimness underscores a deep disconnect. The kind of education sought by a free, open, and modern society differs fundamentally from the notion of education held in a militaristic, autocratic and feudal set-up (replete with its private jails). Evolving cultural and religious norms could change things for the better but the process is slow and not guaranteed. The writer is an Islamabad-based physicist who taught at QAU from 1973 to 2020. Published"

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