CHARSADDA, Sept 21: The Bacha Khan Education Foundation, a social welfare wing of the Awami National Party, has decided to establish 300 educational institutions across the NWFP and its adjacent tribal areas.

The foundation on Thursday launched its first primary school named after the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgaar Tehreek, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also known as Bacha Khan. ANP president Asfandyar Wali Khan inaugurated the school. Begum Nasim Wali and a large number of people attended the ceremony.

The foundation will provide subsidised and free education to boys and girls of under-developed areas and neglected communities.

Asfandyar Wali on the occasion said that the foundation had started its activities when some elements resorted to bombing and threatening education institutions, particularly girl schools in the region. He said that such elements were trying to deprive girls of modern education.

He said his party wanted to revive the Bacha Khan Education Foundation to impart quality education to the young generation. He said the foundation would provide books and uniforms free of cost to students. He appealed to the philanthropists to assist the foundation in this respect.

Foundation’s managing-director Brig (retd) Ishaq said the foundation would be able to set up a complete network of educational institutions throughout the province and tribal areas. Under the programme, he said, five primary and two high schools and a college would be established in every district of the NWFP.