Youth Participation in the Politics of Pakistan: A Historical Review (1947-1971

Authors

Dr. Rizwan Ullah Kokab

Associate Professor, Department of History and Pakistan Studies, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Dr. Muhammad Waris

Post - Doc Fellow, Department of History and Pakistan Studies, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Hamid Iqbal

Ph. D Scholar, Department of History and Pakistan Studies, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2020(4-IV)13

Keywords

Movement Participation Politics Separatism Students Youth

Abstract

The paper reviews the historical patterns of the participation of youth in the politics of Pakistan. It is summed up that the political activities of the young Muslim students contributed in Pakistan Movement but instead of ruling Muslim League, opposition parties established their wings in young students that dominated the student politics in the first decade after Pakistan’s creation. Political activities of Bengali nationalist youth of East Pakistan have been recorded in this paper as a leading factor in the separatism of East Pakistan. Likewise youth were in forefront during the movement that collapsed President Ayub Khan.