PESHAWAR, Nov 21: The Frontier Education Foundation has said that it was a Body Corporate financed by the provincial government.

Clarifying a report published in Dawn on Nov 13, the FEF said: “Foundation’s colleges are affiliated with the boards of intermediate and are in the process of affiliation with relevant universities in the public sector. These colleges were established in the shortest possible time of 3 to 4 months and therefore, laboratory equipment and library books would be supplied in a couple of days.”

But this correspondent was told by the academic section of the Peshawar University that none of the FEF colleges had applied for affiliation.

Sources told Dawn here on Wednesday that about two months back the FEF authorities sent a letter to the university, seeking affiliation. “But this was not the proper way to get university affiliation,” an official said.

He added that responding to the letter the university dispatched five questionnaires with instructions about the affiliation procedure for the FEF colleges,” the sources informed.

According to rules, “the educational institutions, desirous of affiliation, shall initiate the process as soon as possible, at least six months before the commencement of examination.”

“But the FEF had not yet applied for affiliation, as neither has it filled up the questionnaire nor submitted the required bank draft of Rs6,000,” sources said.