Tribal students from Kurram Agency demanded the government to restore scholarship program for them, and it should take steps for reconstruction and rehabilitation of education institution, damaged by militancy in the tribal agency. Addressing a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Monday, Central chairman of Kurram Agency Students Union, Imran Khan said that former governor had made commitment to restore and increase the scholarship for the Fata students, but the decision was yet not to be implemented.
Flanked by the students' union central general secretary Naimatullah Khan, information secretary Naveed Khan and Fazalur Rehman, Khan informed that more than 60 schools have been damaged during military operations in the tribal agency. He said the government has failed to take any steps to rebuild and reconstruct of these destroyed education institutions, due to which he said a number of students future on stake.
The tribal students' leader said the tribal people are being faced with enormous difficulties due to inadequate health facilities in the Kurram agency, which were compelled to shift hospitals to settled areas. While, he said that a number of patients died during shifting in Peshawar hospitals due to severe condition. He said the doctors are always remained absent in Sadda headquarter hospital.
Despite the allocation of millions of rupees in provincial Annual Development Program for Kurram agency, he said the tribal area was completely neglected in the development and progress, and deliberately kept backwards in all fields. He said the elected representatives of the tribal agency, had failed to mitigate the sufferings for people of the tribal Kurram agency. He also questioned the transparency and fairness in the last general elections in the tribal agency.