A Letter From Pakistan

A Letter From Pakistan
Friends of Forman Christian College
As 2007 closed, a letter giving the current status of Forman Christian College in Pakistan was sent out. President Musharraf was attempting to keep the peace but was curtailing many freedoms to do so. Though Musharraf had worked for democracy in Pakistan he was placed in the odd position of having to damage it to preserve any of it. Student protests were flaring up on colleges around the nation but not at the Forman Christian College.
At the college there had only been one small protest. The administrators were glad that there were no repeats of the 80’s demonstrations and unrest. Those almost destroyed the college and the administrators did not want it to happen again. Interestingly at the time the letter was sent out the school had 4,330 students of whom 709 were Christians. Those numbers have actually grown dramatically since the early days of the decade. That Forman Christian school has been able to hold off the unrest that is ripping through the country is incredible given that the unrest is as much religious as political and the university has a combined Christian Muslim population.

Peter H. Armacost
Friends of Forman Christian College
3434 Roswell Rd.
NW, Atlanta, GA 30305