PESHAWAR: Noted Pashto poet and research scholar Habib Nawaz Inqilab has asked the government to provide better educational facilities to special persons to make them useful citizens.

He expressed these views while giving a digital presentation of his PhD thesis ‘Analysing Minimum Quality Care Standards for Blind in Institutes of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’ at Institute of Education and Research, University of Peshawar on Wednesday. Students, faculty members and his fans attended the event in a large number.

He said that special persons could get quality education and could perform any job if government and society provided them with better facilities.

Mr Inqilab claimed to be the first-ever PhD scholar from the community of special persons to have passed out from Institute of Education and Research (IER). He said that he successfully completed his doctorate thesis and his research study would give an insight into the issues being faced by special persons when it came to education and healthcare facilities.

He said that his research study was focused on the minimum quality standards care for visually impaired persons across the province.

“I have come to the conclusion that there is an intense need for government to provide better facilities to special persons so that they could be turned into useful citizens and could play a due role in the society,” he added.

A Pashto poet and teacher by profession, Mr Inqilab enjoys widespread fame and name in literary circles. He has brought out poetry collections and has been participating in poetry recitation sessions.

He said that career commission should be set up in the province for settling issues of special persons.

He said that the commission could make decisions for providing proper facilities in public sector institutes to visually impaired persons and others at large suffering from different kinds of disabilities.

Prof Dr Munir Ahmad on the occasion said that teachers of IER should be credited for passing out first visually impaired person.

He said that he himself found Mr Inqilab a hardworking research scholar with a great vision.

The defence ceremony was followed by questions and answers session wherein Mr Inqilab responded to the participants with his satisfying answers.

Published in Dawn, August 12th, 2021