PESHAWAR, Jan 26: The NWFP Minister for Education Maulana Fazle Ali said that making a decision in its first cabinet meeting to provide free education up to class ten, showed that the MMA government was taking practical steps for the solution of the problems of the people.

speaking at a function for the inauguration of a science laboratory in the Government High School, Pabanai, in the remote area of district Swabai, he said that the ministers and MPs of the MMA were from ordinary people and unlike the past rulers were accessible to the people.

He said that besides providing free education up to class ten, the government had decided to make urdu the official language and conduct competitive examinations in urdu so that the children of the poor could also reach the higher positions.

He said that a committee of eminent ulma and scholars had been constituted to find the way to enforce Islamic laws in the province.

He pointed out that in view of the fact that there was no MMA government in the Centre, the provincial government would work within its limitations for the enforcement of sharia. He, however, said that due to the pressure of the MMA parliamentarians no body in the Centre could enforce any law contrary to sharia.

He said that the basic problem of the people was that they had no access to justice and the enforcement of sharia would solve that problem.

The minister said that the problems of schools in the province were located and will be properly addressed.

Speaking on the occasion, MNA, Maulana Khalil Ahead Mukhlis, said that despite the passage of fifty years the people could not enforce a law according to their own wishes and requirements, however, he said, the MMA would solve this problem. He said that the MMA government would provide stability to the country and enforce a system in which every one would be provided his rights, security and justice.

Earlier, the minister formally inaugurated the science laboratory and assured that the basic requirements, in such far-flung schools, would soon be met.—PPI