Adil Najam
At the new Prime Minister’s oath-taking recently, the body language of Gen. Pervez Musharraf as well as Yousuf Raza Gillani made it obvious that neither was comfortable being with the other. Each has deep reasons to distrust the motives of the other. One doubts, therefore, if they took any time t reminiscence about their college days. Both, after all, went to college at Lahore’s famed Forman Christian (F.C.) College; although at different times.
Had they done so, they would have found that they are a part of a fast growing fraternity of FC Colege (and, now, University) who are now making it to the top offices in Pakistan politics.
Former President Sardar Farooq Leghari was the first one in this new crop of powerful Formanites, but recently there has been an absolute flurry. Gen. Pervez Musharraf as President and Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani as Prime Minister are, of course, Formanites too. But so have been Pakistan Prime Ministers Chaudhry Shujaat and Mohamedmian Soomro, Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral and Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Ellahi.
None of them seem to flaunt their college colors too hard – except Gen. Musharraf in his memories. Those mentions included, none of them seem to share with the public any lasting memories of their educational exploits at FC College and their is little indication that any of them had made deep marks for scholarship there. That notwithstanding, there is clearly a rise in the number of Formanites in power.
It used to be that Government College (and Aitchison College) were the power schools in Lahore. FC College would give them a run for their money in cricket, but not always in power corridors. That, it seems, has changed. Beware Ravians!
Correction: An earlier version of this post had listed Zafarullah Khan Jamali as an FC College Alumni. We checked after it was pointed out by a reader and, in fact, he was not (he went to Government College it seems). Proof, yet again, that not everything on the internet, especially on Wikipedia, ought to be believed. Our apologies.
fccu is the leading educational institute of pakistan. formanites r going to overpower the whole pakistan. formanites r representing pakistan in the whole world.
sir.nawaz one of the rude faculty of fc college.
@Asad,
Spelling mistakes in English is the end of the univers,
but we don’t hear any where the critics on the disastrous
Urdu language used by the P.hd of our ” elite” pendoos
in public, Ministers, Lawyers, Doctors, Professors, Teachers
Educators, the entire media & showbis basically is worst
than pendoos, just watch, one, they call, ” talk show”, the
host can not even speak one proper English sentence, BUT
they are forced to speak PINGLISH ?? not to talk about
poor “Bechari Urdu “. How would be the next generation of
Pakistan ?? Total catastroph !!
i hear NAwaz sharif was an old ravain wht abt tht n it seems fccu took over gcu this time lolx…….. anyhw benazir was frm oxford……. lolx
I dont understand after reading all these comments why people are against FCC? And why remaining are in its favour?