KOHAT: The Private Educational Association Kohat (Peak) has demanded of the government to increase the number of supervising committees under the private schools regulatory authority from four to 10 in the province for looking after thousands of schools.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, Peak president Rab Nawaz said that their point of view of equal number of members in the body had been upheld by the Peshawar High Court.

He said that new restrictions could render thousands of small schools shut, affecting thousands of children.

He also said that powers to the body to expel any member of private schools and enforce the decisions from time to time unilaterally were not acceptable to them.About the supervising committees, he elaborated that he had been given territory from Kohat up to Dera Ismail Khan and it was not possible for a single person to monitor schools in such a large constituency.

RALLY: Speakers at a protest rally warned to surround the Parliament House if the election bill 2017 was not restored in its original form.

The rally was held against amendments in Khatm-i-Nabuwwat law which was addressed by leaders near Shah Faisal Gate here on Thursday.

The speakers termed passage of the election bill 2017 `un-Islamic`. They included Haji Abid of Jamaat-i-Islami, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat chairman Javed Ibraheem Paracha, Manzoor Ahmed Paracha, Aftab Alam of PTI and others.

They said that the bill was not acceptable to them.