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PESHAWAR, July 30: The Tribal Students’ Organisation has demanded that a medical college be set up in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas as announced earlier.
“The projects announced for Fata should not be shifted to the settled areas as tribal people would not be able to benefit from them there,” said TSO, Kurram Agency, president Hamayun Shah.
Leaders of the organisation, in a press release issued here on Sunday, opposed the decision of the NWFP government to shift the projects to Peshawar.
They said that a former governor had announced at a gathering of tribal elders that the medical college would be set up in Parachinar and a site had been selected for the project. But Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai had ordered construction of the college in Peshawar.
They said the projects for an engineering college and two degree colleges had also been shifted from Bajaur Agency to Peshawar.
GIRL DROWNS: The body of a six-year-old Afghan girl, who drowned in an over-flowing drain on the University Road on Saturday, was found in a canal in Babugarhi on Sunday morning.
Fakhra Gul, daughter of Saeedullah, was going home from her father’s fruit-stall when she fell into the drain which had been submerged by rainwater and was not visible.
Saeedullah said the incident took place at around 7am.
