Orphan Got First in Fata,2nd pPosition in Peshawar Board

Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: The Khyber Agency political agent,Mutahir Zeb awarded rupees 0.1 million to an orphan child who violated curfew hours in Akakhel Maira of Bara tehsil and got second position in Peshawar board.




To promote the education cause in the militancy hit Khyber agency areas the Khyber agency political agent Mutahir Zeb the other day awarded Rs.0.1 million prize to an orphan child, Qari Muhammad Tahir Khan, who got first position in Fata while second position in 9th class exam in Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar.(BISEP). Qari Tahir sustained 528 marks out of 550 marks and declared him second position holder in Peshawar board. Tahir is the son of a widow whose husband was killed in Bara few years ago. Most of the Bara residents had been shifted to Peshawar from militancy to save their lives.But extreme poverty compelled Tahir's mother to live there in Akakhel Maira and send Tahir to a school near to his village in Bara subdivision. Tahir not only taking position in school but his family members said that Tahir aslo memorized(hifz) the Holy Quran in short time. "Tahir never missed a single class,he used to come to the school even violating curfew hours to attend classes in Abubakkar Public high school", said the school principal Arif ullah.He said that Tahir remained an outstanding student of his school. "Tahir had been given admission on orphan quota because his mother had no source of income to pay his school's dues", the school principal said. Talking to this scribe,Qari Tahir said that he want to become a doctor.He thanked Mutahir Zeb and said that now he would be able to keep continue his education.Tahir requested the government,pelanthrophets and educational institutions to help the other hundreds of poor and orphan children who had abandond education due poverty.He said if he was helped both moral and economically he would also take first position in next matric exams. Bara parliamentarian, Nasir Khan and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Khyber Agency leader Iqbal Afridi also appriciated the economical support with the talented student.The political leaders said that they would also help Tahir. Iqbal Afridi said that more than 45 government-run schools have been destroyed in Bara subdivision which had suffered education of hundreds of children . Iqbal Afridi demanded of the federal and PTI-led Khyber Pakhunkhwa governments to start the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the destroyed schools in Khyber Agency to save the children's future.