LOWER DIR: The Young Teachers Association (YTA) on Saturday threatened a long march on Banigala, the residence of former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, if his party’s government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa failed to pass the KP Teachers (Appointment and Regularisation of Services) Bill, 2022 into a law during the upcoming session of the assembly starting from Sept 12.

Talking to journalists here, YTA provincial president Attaur Rehman said over 34,000 contractual teachers had long been waiting for regularisation. He said the association had planned a meeting with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in Swat to remind him of the promise his ministers had made with the association during its protest sit-in in Banigala on their regularisation.

He said an amended bill for regularising the services of ad hoc teachers had been introduced in the assembly, but it was yet to be passed. He said the minister for elementary and secondary education Shahram Khan Tarakai had tabled the bill in the house.

Mr Rehman said the provincial cabinet had also approved the proposed law for regularising the services of ad hoc schoolteachers hired during the last five years.

The YTA president said ad hoc teachers had no option other than to come onto the roads as the government seemed least bothered to honour its pledge on their regularisation.

KILLED: A former police official of Afghanistan was shot dead by a relative in the Timergara refugee camp on Saturday.

Police said Mohammad Gul, a police officer during the Ashraf Ghani-led regime, was seriously injured in the attack and brought to the District Headquarters Hospital, Timergara.

He was referred to a Peshawar hospital, but succumbed to injuries on the way.

The deceased’s son, Iftikhar lodged a report with the police, claiming that one of their relatives, Ahmad Gul, was involved in killing of his father.

Published in Dawn, September 11th, 2022