KARAK: The workers of Awami National Party held a protest demonstration on Thursday and demanded of the government to make functional Alaf Jana Khattak girls degree college in Banda Daud Shah.

The protest was organised at Teri Chowk on the first death anniversary of renowned poet and member of Khudai Khidmatgar movement Alaf Jana Khattak. The protesters demanded of the government to start classes in the college to provide an opportunity of higher education to the local girl students.

ANP tehsil president Farooq Islam and workers of the party attended the demonstration. They said that the lone degree college for girls in the area was established during the ANP government.

They said that the building of the college was completed more than two years ago but classes were not launched in it.

They said that government always claimed that education and health departments were its top priorities but it failed to launch classes in the college. ANP also organised an event on the first death anniversary of Alaf Jana Khattak in the resident of Sultan, a local worker of the party.

Speakers on the occasion paid glowing tributes to the literary and political services of Alaf Jana. A floral wreath was also laid on her grave and fateha was offered for her soul.

PROBE: A local elder Amir Pashtun has demanded of the government to probe the alleged embezzlement of funds in construction of a mini dam few years ago on the outskirts of Teri as it has been washed away by the flood.

Talking to journalists here on Thursday, he said that during the previous government of PTI, a mini dam was built at a cost of Rs10 million in Teri area but it was washed away by flood owing to use of substandard material.

He said that an inquiry should be conducted into the matter to fix responsibility and punish the people responsible for misappropriating the national wealth. He asked the quarters concerned to take his demand seriously.

Published in Dawn, September 18th, 2020