PESHAWAR, Nov 18: The Imamia Students Organization has expressed concern over the admission of the students of the Frontier Region to the professional colleges on the reserved seats for the tribal people of the Kurram Agency.

Talking to reporters at a press conference held on Monday at the press club, the office bearers of the ISO said that the Supreme Court’s verdict about establishing of an additional Frontier Region with the Kurram Agency had created lots of problems for not only other people but specially the students of area.

They said that the students hailing from the FR area, which had been separated from the Kurram Agency, were seeking admission to the professional colleges on the reserved seats for the students of the agency.

They claimed that those from the FR area had no rights to take admissions to the colleges on the reserved seats for the agency, as region had a separate status of FR Kurram Agency.

They said that the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas, consisting seven tribal agencies and FRs, had been given quota and reserved seats for admissions to the professional institutions.

The six FRs including Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Dera Ismail Khan and Tank had been allotted seven seats, but no reserved seats for the FR Kurram Agency, the ISO leaders said.

They said that in the absence of reserved seats for the newly established frontier region the students were seeking admissions on the seats reserved for the Kurram Agency.

The ISO office bearers demanded of the federal government and the NWFP governor to take notice and give the proper rights to the students of the Kurram Agency.