PESHAWAR, Nov 23: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court has suspended an order of the district Nazim, Hangu, to dissolve the board of governors of an educational institution.

The bench comprising Justice Tariq Pervaiz and Justice Abdur Rauf Laghmani also admitted to full hearing the writ petition filed by management of Hangu Public School and College.

The petitioner has stated that the college was a private institution and the Nazim had no authority to dissolve its board of governors.

It was added that the administration of the school was not in the good books of the Nazim due to which he had issued an ‘illegal’ order.

Advocate Mian Muhibullah Kakakhel appeared for the petitioner and argued that the Nazim had no legal authority to interfere in the affairs of the said educational institution.

He referred to the NWFP Local Governments Ordinance 2001, stating that under the said law a Nazim of a district council had specific functions to perform.

In lighter vein he said that a Nazim could construct public toilets and check the sanitation situation of a district, but he could not dissolve the board of governors of a private educational institutions. He added that unfortunately the Nazims considered that they have been given unbridled powers under the law, but in fact it was not so.