PESHAWAR, Feb 28: The Women Writer’s Forum on Monday launched the first book on the history of the Frontier College, the first women’s college in the province set up since 1948.

Prof Musharraf Mubashir, a teacher of the college which also launched a women’s university in the NWFP last year, completed the book entitled “History of the Frontier College” in six years. Attiya Inayatullah, the president of the forum, praised the author for the work.

Bushra Jamal, a playwright and the founder of the forum, said that it was the first time that the forum had launched a research book. She said that history books kept a nation alive.

Ms Shamim Fazl-i-Khaliq, secretary of the forum, said that so far more than a dozen books had been launched from the platform of the forum. Salma Qasir, vice-president of the forum, said the government should support the forum so that books written by women writers of the NWFP could be published.