All Pakistan Muttahidda Students Organization
The All Pakistan Muttahida Students Organization (APMSO) is notable for being the student organization that created its mother organization, the Muhajir Qaumi Movement, now called the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
Instead of trying to downplay destructive ethnic politics that were a danger to national cohesion,the Pakistani government allowed the existence of ethnic-based student organizations.In one of Pakistan’s well known universities, Karachi University, there were at least ten different groups of students;The Pakhtoon Student Federation, Baloch Student Organization, Punjabi Student Association, Punjabi Medico Organization, Sindhi Medico Organization, Jiye Sindh Student Organization, Sindhi Student Action Committee, Saraiki Student Organization, Kashmiri Student Federation, Balochistani Student Association, and the Islami Jamiyat-e-Talba.In 1978,a group of Urdu speaking students of Karachi University, led by Altaf Hussain, created the APMSO on June 11, 1978.
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