KOHAT: Adviser to the chief minister on sports, culture and archeology, Amjid Khan Afridi on Tuesday inaugurated a girls high school in the most backward and remote Shiekh Allahdad union council of Kohat, which borders Nowshera district.

The school has been constructed at a cost of Rs11.1 million and would start functioning after appointment of staff.

About 90 per cent of the girls belonging to the area couldn’t continue their studies due to absence of a high school, and the parents were not ready to send their children to Kohat city due to cultural restrictions.

Speaking on the occasion, Amjid Afridi claimed that education had been on the priority list of the PTI government, and soon a network of educational institutions would be laid in PK-37 constituency.

Mr Afridi also paid a visit to the under-construction girls degree college, Bilitang, on the Rawalpindi road, which is being built at a cost of Rs180 million.

TWO INJURED: Two people sustained injuries after a house used for making sweets collapsed due to a blast caused by gas leakage on Rawalpindi road on Tuesday.

A police spokesman said the police and local people pulled out the two men alive from the debris. The operation to remove the debris by Rescue 1122 was still going on. The blast occurred in the College Town, he said. The victims were stated to be in stable condition.

A victim was lighting a lamp during loadshedding which caused the blast. It was so powerful that the house comprising two rooms, kitchen and a bathroom, fell down. A woman escaped unhurt. The SHO Saddar police station said the reason behind the blast was gas leak.

The injured men, Sahir Shah, and his son, Danish, had been shifted to the KDA divisional headquarters hospital.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2015