KOHAT: Social circles have demanded of the provincial government to establish campuses of the women and engineering universities in Kohat as the late provincial governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah had approved the same in 2003.

If established, they said students from backward areas, who had either done MPhil or PhD, could be employed there.

Talking to journalists here on Sunday, they pointed out that the PTI government had failed to implement its declaration of enforcing education emergency in the province. They regretted that the then Awami National Party government in the province had also failed to keep its word on establishing varsity campuses in Kohat.

On the occasion, chairman of Sons of Kohat, Shah Mehmood and chairman of Sada-i-Kohat Zahid Hussain Inqilabi said that sites had been selected for building varsity campuses, but the projects were shelved for unknown reasons.

They said that though the Kohat University of Science and Technology offered co-education, a majority of women was not allowed admissions by their parents.

Published in Dawn, November 1st, 2022