BAJAUR: Jamaat-i-Islami leader Senator Mushaq Ahmad Khan and other speakers at a function have called for tangible efforts for promotion of education in tribal districts to improve the socioeconomic condition of the residents.

Addressing the talent award distribution ceremony arranged for students the other day at the JirgaHall in Civil Colony, Khar, the speakers said that like other sectors the condition of education in tribal districts was still very poor despite merger of the region with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Senator Ahmad claimed that unfortunately no visible improvement could be made in any sector since the Fata-KP merger in 2018.

The ceremony organised by a group of local youth led by RahmatullahMamundwasattended by political activists, students and local government representatives.

A group of female teachers and girl students also attended the function held to honour talented students and officials of different public institutions who were givenmedals, shields, laptops and certificates for their remarkable performance.

Senator Ahmad said that the country`s rulers had always ignored the education sector in tribal districts. He pointed out that the number of educational institutions in tribal districts was less than any other district of the country.

He said development and progress was impossible without quality education. He demanded establishment of at least one university in every tribal district besides new colleges and schools.

JI district chief Haroon Rasheed, Khar tehsil council chairman Said Badshah, PPP leader Akhunzada Chattan and DPO Abdul SamadKhan also spoke at the event.

FUNDS SOUGHT: All Bajaur GovernmentContractorsAssociation claimed here the other day that the provincial government had stopped funds for development projectsin the tribal district and threatened to stop work if the funds weren`t released by end of current month.

Addressing a press conference in Bajaur Press Club here, the association`s president Gul Kareem Khan and others alleged that the KP government had stopped development funds in all the tribal districts several weeks ago.

They threatened to stop development work if the government didn`t release the funds by end of this month.