PEHSAWAR, Oct 28: University of Peshawar Vice-Chancellor Mumtaz Gul has said that the university is ready to help students from Azad Jammu and Kashmir in providing educational facilities so that they can continue their studies.

“I have told the provincial and federal authorities that we can extend help not only in relief activities but also in providing educational facilities to the students of the devastated areas,” the VC said at a meeting held in the Senate Hall of the university.

He said that the students and teachers of the university might go to quake-hit areas to carry out relief activities.

Earlier, Dr Shafiqur Rehman, Chairman, Environmental Science department, read a paper on epicentre of the quake and said that aftershocks might strike the same area as a plate of earth was moving and it might cause more shocks of powerful magnitude.—Correspondent