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Liberal Students Federation

student federation in Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6540811 ↗
Source-derived summary

Liberal Students Federation (LSF) is a student federation in Pakistan created by a split from the National Students Federation in 1973. It has branches in all major Colleges and Universities in Pakistan.

It played a significant part in student developments recently along with the NSF to both strengthen and orient towards social Democratic positions of the newly formed Insaaf Student Federation (ISF) which is now aligned with the PTI and is fighting against the overthrow of General Mashraaf's military junta and vocal support with the pro-lawyers movement to restore the independent judiciary.

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The public source identifies “Liberal Students Federation” as student federation in Pakistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Liberal, Students and Federation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Liberal Students Federation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.