TIMERGARA: Two students were killed while eleven others were injured when a teacher, after losing control over his car, ploughed it into the students attending morning assembly at a school in Mayar Jandool here, eyewitnesses and police told Dawn.

They said that the car was being driven by Salim Jan, science teacher at the government higher secondary school, Mayar Jandool.

They said that Abdul Basit, class 10th student, and Samiullah, class 9th student, were killed on the spot, while eleven others, including a sweeper of the school, were injured.

The injured were identified Imdadullah, Shaukat Ali, Sultan Mohammad, Hayat ur Rahman, Attaullah and Majid of class 10th, Awais Khan, Mohammad Shah and Syed Kamal of class 9th, Kamran Hassan of class 6th and sweeper, Mohammad Saeed.

They were taken to Mayar and Timergara hospitals from where four students, Imdadullah, Sultan Mohammad, Awais Khan and Hidayat ur Rahman, were shifted to Peshawar in critical condition.

Mayar Jandol SHO Haidar Zaman said that the teacher had been arrested and further interrogation into the incident was underway.

The district education officer Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim said that an inquiry team had been constituted to investigate the matter.

The Mayar Jandol area presented a mournful look after the incident.

Meanwhile, talking to a group of reporters from behind the bars, the teacher Salim Jan said that he didn’t know what happened after he lost control over the car.

FOREIGN GRADUATES: The All Pakistan Foreign Graduate Doctors’ Association, Malakand division, on Saturday complained that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had been treating them not at par with the Pakistani graduates.

The association threatened to stage a protest sit-in, first outside the chief minister house at Peshawar, and then at the residence of Imran Khan at Bani Gala, Islamabad if the government failed to accept their charter of demands within 15 days.

The demands were made at a meeting chaired by the association’s president Dr Sherin Khan Yousafzai.

The participants said that due to the apathy of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led provincial government hundreds of doctors had gone overage while the rest were also not considered for government jobs in hospitals.

They said that all of them were registered with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council and had the right to be recruited as medical officers in government hospitals. They said that even in the Public Service Commission exams they were being discouraged.

Published in Dawn, November 23rd, 2014