SHANGLA: Pakistan Muslim League-N MPA Mohammad Rashad Khan has demanded of the provincial government to remove what he said ‘un-Islamic’ topics from the textbooks.

He demanded this while addressing annual prize distribution ceremony at a private school here on Sunday.

The lawmaker alleged that PTI-led provincial government had removed Islamic topics from the education curriculum. “We protested the issue in the provincial assembly a year back, forcing the chief minister to promise corrective measures, but he failed to keep his word,” he deplored.

Rashad Khan said getting quality education was the right of every child and asked the parents to focus on character building of their children.

Tehsil council member Ijaz Kamal said PTI government was making efforts to improve education standard in the province.

YOUTH DIES: A young man died after he took some tablets allegedly prescribed by a local dispenser.

Locals told Dawn that Sajad Ali, 19, went unconscious on Sunday, and they took him to hospital from where doctors referred him to Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, where doctors pronounced him dead.

According to the victim’s family, doctors told them that the cause of death was frequent consumption of a certain tablet, which caused the body to dehydrate. They said Sajad was taking the tablets for getting slim on the prescription of a local dispenser.

Local MPA Rashad Khan, taking notice of the youth’s death, asked the police to take action against the dispenser.

Published in Dawn January 16th, 2017