Textbooks seized

Published October 20, 2017

CHARSADDA: The district administration has seized a large number of textbooks of government schools in a raid on a warehouse and arrested its owner.

Sources said that additional assistant commissioner Inayatullah Khan along with police personnel raided a warehouse at Qazikhel town of Charsadda.

During the raid, they confiscated a large number of books of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, which the government had been distributing among students from class one to secondary level free of cost. The raiding party arrested the owner of the warehouse who would sell the books as scrap at throwaway price.

The AAC on this occasion told mediapersons that the provincial government under the education reforms had given books for all primary and high school students in the province. He said that the books seized were for 5th class. He said the suspect had been arrested and sent to jail. He said that action would be taken against other people involved in this illegal business.

Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2017

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