PESHAWAR, Oct 20: Tribal elders and parents of girl students from South Waziristan Agency on Saturday demanded opening of a girls’ high school in the Kanigaram valley.

The demand was made at a jirga held at the residence of Malik Mohammad Qareeb at which Malik Mohammad Shafi and other elders spoke.

They said that there was no high school in the valley that has an estimated population of 60,000.

They said that girls in the area quit education after passing the middle standard examination.

They said that well-off families moved to the settled areas for education but girls of families with insufficient means were deprived of education.

They called upon the president, prime minister and the NWFP governor to upgrade the middle school in their area to the high school so that girls could get higher education.—APP