SWABI: Contract teachers of 38 Working Folk Grammar Schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are in a fix about their future as the Workers Welfare Board (WWF) has neither renewed their contracts nor terminated their services for the last six months.

Giving details, leaders of workers said on Thursday that two of these schools were operating in Swabi to impart quality education to the children of working class.

Sources in these institutions said that contract of the teachers had ended on March 31 and needed renewal, but the government had yet to come clear about this issue.

They said that the teachers come to schools regularly, but did not teach to the students in protest.

Nihar Ali, Mehnat Kash Union president, said that in both Shahmansoor and Gadoon Amazai Industrial Estate working folk schools about 2,200 students were getting education.

“These schools don’t have the previous standard due to apathy of the officials,” he said.

Mr Ali said that about 40,000 students had been acquiring education in these schools in the province, but now the big problem was that the contract teachers did not teach them and the regular teacher were few in number. Only in Shahmansoor school, he said, there were about 20 teachers working on contract.

When contacted, the contract teachers said that they had met with provincial minister for labour Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli, but she said that the federal government was responsible for the entire mess.

MURDER CASE: The police have traced the alleged killer of a boy and arrested his friend in the case.

Officials said that mother of Haqdar Khan had registered an FIR in Kalu Khan police station on Aug 18 that her son went out with his friends, but did not return. Later, his body was recovered.

The police arrested the victim’s friend identified as Ghulam Sarwar of Dagai village and during investigation he allegedly admitted that he had taken Haqdar to Sherdara region and killed him there. When contacted, ASI Ayub Khan said: “We want to further investigate the case.”

Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2016