Pakistani student becomes first the president of a Scottish university, The Caledonian university in Glasgow, Scotland.
Pakistani student Adil Rahoo has become the first-ever international and Pakistani student to have been elected as the president of Glasgow Caledonian University.
Originally from Sindh’s Badin area, Adil Rahoo won with 733 votes against his runner up who received 274 votes. The competition was among 17 other candidates.
Adil Rahoo began his studies in Karachi and then moved to Glasgow to further his education. He graduated with a 1st-class bachelor’s degree in Business and Management.
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Prior to his election, Rahoo served as the vice-president of the University after winning the elections in 2020. Later that year, he ran in a city-wide election and became the chairman of the Glasgow Student Forum, in which he chaired the meetings held between the presidents and vice-presidents from all other institutions in the city of Glasgow and lobbied the government and institutions for matters affecting the students of the city.
In his previous term, he was known to lobby key government actors, including the Scottish Minister of Education and Science, Richard Lochhead, for increased Hardship Funds and the inclusion of international students in the Winter COVID-19 Fund released by the Scottish Government.
Rahoo said that in his new role, he intends to represent and safeguard the interests of the students of his university fully and to leave a legacy behind for many decades to come.
His father Ismail Rahoo is a senior politician and is serving his fourth term as a minister in the Sindh Cabinet. His grandfather Fazil Rahoo spent 12 years in imprisonment under various military regimes until he was finally assassinated in 1987.
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