KARAK, Feb 1: A local jirga has demanded of the government to upgrade the only high school for boys in Khurram union council to higher secondary level to facilitate the students of the area.

“Hundreds of talented students of the areas say goodbye to education every year after matriculation as they cannot afford to go to other cities for getting education,” Khurram Qaumi Jirga president Mohammad Furqan Khan told a meeting here on Wednesday.

He said that two posts of ‘senior schoolteachers’ were vacant in the school since long that deprived students of getting science education. The meeting said that the vacant posts should be filled as early as possible.

The participants of the meeting also expressed dissatisfaction over the dilapidated condition of the school building. They demanded of the government to reconstruct the building to avoid any untoward incident.

The meeting said that a playground should be built for students over the government land, adjacent to the school.

WARNING: Khattak Ittehad, a local organisation, has set a two-week deadline to the government to put in order health centres across the district otherwise it would lock all hospitals.

Addressing a meeting here on Wednesday, KI president Maulana Mirazqeem, former nazim Muheet Khan and Malik Noor Wali Khan alleged that all hospitals in the district had failed to provide proper health care to masses. “The doctors serving in government hospitals focus on their private clinks instead of official duty,” they alleged.

They said that even the district headquarters hospital was short of facilities. The speakers said that even paramedics were not available in the hospital in the second time.

They said that they had informed the elected representatives of the district time and again to take corrective measures for the hospital but so far no step had been taken in that regard.

ELECTIONS: Naimatullah was elected president and Abdullah general secretary of Takht Nusrati Tehsil Bar Association in the annual elections of the body here on Wednesday. Other office-bearers of the association include Zahid Iqbal, vice president, Irshadullah, joint secretary, and Irfanullah secretary finance.