PESHAWAR, May 25: In view of the miserable conditions at the Inter College Yaka Gund, Mohmand Agency, Core Group Mohmand Agency, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, has demanded of the NWFP governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah to fulfil his promise to upgrade the college to degree level.

A two-member team of the core group, coordinator Shamsul Qamar Shams and Shakir Ullah during their visit to the college found it without staff, water, and other basic facilities.

The report said that the only college in Mohmand Agency was established in 1972 and successive rulers have made promises to upgrade and equip the college, but have never acted upon any of them.

The report also suspects that the rulers do not want the younger generation of Fata to be educated. And that was why they are not being provided education which is their basic right.

“Since 1996, 11 lecturers, 19 class-4 ministerial staff have been approved for the college, but the case is still pending and it seems no consideration is being given to it”.

During its visit the core group observed that beside under-staffing the college does not even have its own water supply.

This is why the students do not want to live in the hostels and the college is without lawns and has a desolate look.

Another blunder that the college administration has made is that they have brought computers, but in the absence of a laboratory these have been dumped in one corner.

The core group has appealed to the governor to fulfil his promise regarding upgrading of the college on priority basis if he wants the youth of the area to benefit from the institution and become useful members of society. —PPI