PESHAWAR: A local court has restrained the management of Frontier Education Foundation (FEF) from closing down the FEF Degree College for Girls at Nauthia area and from sending its students to a government college situated several kilomteres away from there.

Civil judge Muhammad Wali fixed Nov 13 as next date of hearing of a suit filed by several students of the college and notables of the area after preliminary hearing with the direction that till next hearing the students should not be migrated from the college.

Advocate Shaukat Ghulam appeared for the plaintiffs and stated that it would be a great injustice to the students if the college was closed and they were shifted to another college in Dabgari area which was several kilometers away from the present college. He said that parents of several students had stated that if the college was closed down they would not allow their daughters to go to another far away college.

The plaintiffs stated that a few days ago the director of FEF had written a letter for transfer of the college staff and the students to Dabgari Garden College, Peshawar. They claimed that the college administration had warned the students that if they did not sign the migration forms their enrolment would be cancelled.

The defendants in the suit are the principal of the FEF College for Girls, the director FEF Faisal Ibrahim, the secretary higher education department and the chief secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Published in Dawn, November 12th, 2014