PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Elementary and Secondary Education Department has clarified that refugee students in the province are required to have visa or police registration for admission in schools, says a press release issued here on Monday.

Contradicting news item appeared in daily Dawn on Aug 27 regarding denial of admission to Afghan refugee students in schools, the department said that these documents needed to be checked by the relevant departments of the provincial and federal governments.

It said that no orders or verbal instructions had been issued by the department to any school for denial of admission to any child on the basis of nationality or any other distinction.

Published in Dawn, August 30th, 2016