SWABI: Bodies of two youth were recovered from a mountainous area in Saleem Khan village here on Wednesday, Rescue 1122 and the police officials said.

SHO Swabi city police station Altaf Khan told Dawn that the youngsters were shot from a close range. “We have collected the evidence from the spot and are investigating the incident,” he added.

The deceased were identified as Wasiq Mohammad, 20, and Sudais Khan, 22. The former belonged to Saleem Khan village and the latter to Chota Lahor city. An FIR has been registered against unknown assailants.

Meanwhile, a 35-year-old man, identified as Yousuf Khan, was killed when unidentified attackers opened fire on him in Marghuz Bazaar on Wednesday.

SHO Zaida police station Niaz Ali said a Rescue 1122 team shifted the critically injured man to Bacha Khan Medical Hospital, but he could not survive.

VARSITY BUILDING: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan will inaugurate the Women University Swabi (WUS) building, which has been completed at cost of Rs2.16 billion, today (Thursday), Vice-Chancellor Prof Shahana Urooj Kazmi told Dawn on Wednesday.

“At present, about 3,000 girls have been enrolled in 26 disciplines, and in future more disciplines are expected to be launched at the varsity, providing opportunity to them to acquire quality education,” she said.

The academic staff said the WUS began as the first campus of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, established by then government of Awami National Party in 2013. They said the PTI government upgraded it to a full-fledge university in 2016, and classes started in a makeshift building in Gulu Dheri area.

Land for the varsity was acquired in Kotha union council and work on the building was opened by then chief minister Pervez Khattak in Sept 2017 on the premises of the Government Sahibzada Khursheed Memorial Degree College, Kotha, in Topi tehsil.

The staffers said the fundamental objective of WUS was to impart quality education to girls of Swabi and its periphery regions, enabling them to play their due role in the country’s progress and prosperity.

Meanwhile, the chief minister, during his Swabi visit, would also lay the foundation stone of the building of the Gajju Khan Medical College, which is currently functioning in the building of the Bacha Khan Hospital Complex, Shahmansoor, since its inception in 2013.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2022