LAKKI MARWAT: Elders of Mela Mandrakhel have expressed their deep concern over the lack of higher secondary level education facilities and urged the provincial government to set up a higher secondary school for girls in the area.

Talking to journalists here on Saturday, they said that the rural locality lacked proper educational facilities for girls, forcing them to travel to Lakki city on a daily basis to get higher secondary education.

They said that many girl students from the rural areas had got admission into the public sector schools located in the urban localities to continue their education.

“To send their girls to schools in other areas is an additional economic for inflation-hit parents,” an elder maintained, adding that the safe travel of female students to school and back to their homes in their village is also a matter of great concern for their parents.

Elders show concerns over lack of educational facilities in Lakki

Elders said that many parents could not afford to send their daughters to the educational institutions located in Lakki city for various reasons.

“Instead of spending on the education of girls in other areas, they prefer to keep them engaged in domestic work at their homes,” they added.

They said that setting up a girl’s higher secondary school was the need of the hour as it would provide the female students with an opportunity to continue their higher secondary education close to their homes.

SEARCH OPERATION: Karak police arrested two suspects and seized arms, ammunition and narcotics from them during a search and strike operation on Saturday.

A police official said that the operation was launched within the limits of Latambar police station on the special instructions of DPO Imran Khan, who had received credible information about the presence of anti-social elements in the area.

“During the operation, the police raided suspected hideouts of outlaws and drug barons and arrested two suspects,” he maintained.

The official said that the law enforcers recovered an AK-47 assault rifle, bullets, 1055 grams of hashish and a small quantity of ice (crystal meth) from the arrested men and registered separate cases under the relevant sections of law.

Meanwhile, Lakki police captured three suspects and seized three pistols and bullets from them. Police HAVE registered cases against the arrested men under relevant sections of the law in the city police station and initiated an investigation.

Published in Dawn, May 10th, 2026