By Fazal Khaliq
Mohibullah Khan, special assistant to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister, has said without girls education development of Pakistan is a mere dream.
He was speaking at an award distribution ceremony for position holder students of the intermediate and secondary education at the Postgraduate Girls College, Saidu Sharif here on Tuesday. He said promotion of education was the top priority of the KP government as it had allocated a huge Rs100 billion in the current budget, which was unprecedented in Asia. Besides, he said the KP government had created 70,000 posts for teachers.
Nargis Ara, the college principal, congratulated the position holder girls and their mothers and said the function was organised to encourage and appreciate the high achievers. She said there were no teachers for computer science, chemistry, physics, botany, zoology, psychology, geography and Pashto subjects. She said the teaching assistant staff should be regularised.
Kalsoom Musharaf, who topped the FA result of BISE Swat, 2016, in humanities group, received a cash prize of Rs15,000 from the college principal. On the occasion, she expressed excitement over receiving the award and said it was for the first time in the history of the college that a proper function was arranged in honour of girls who got positions in board exams.
On the occasion students also talked about the importance of girls’ education and stressed on the government to provide them better opportunities.
They said that education for a girl means education of her entire family. “Educated woman enjoys dignity and honor in a society as she knows her rights and deals every matter with maturity,” said Zarqa Khan, a student of the college.
Hima Khan another girl student of the college said that education was the right of every man and woman and no nation could make development without educated women. “Women should not be limited inside the boundaries but they must be allowed to get education in modest environment. Educated women contribute not only with her family uplift but also in the uplift of the entire nation,” she said.
Kalsoom Musharf of the college stood first in the BISE 2016 examination in humanities group, Kaynat of the same college was sixth in the same group while Maria Zigar grabbed second position in BSc final under the 2016 examinations conducted by Swat University.
