The Genius People Of Khyber Agency

This girl belong to bara khyber agency .she got 3rd position in BISE Peshawar 2014 matric exam.she got this number from Hamza girls high school Jan khan killi bar qambar khel which is under miltary operation from last four years.if we think that the student of khyber agency can get good position in this situation if government of pakistan provide good educational environment to them then these people also can do more for pakistan as done by their forefathers in past.

Pakistani Malik Ameer Muhammad Afridi in Peshawar With His Moustache Style

Malik Ameer Muhammad Afridi is 47 year old He belongs to Bara in Khyber Agency.
He is a man with 30 inches long moustache curling towards forehead. His tall moustache made him the centre of attention for militant group Lashkar-e-Islami.
Malik Ameer Muhammad Afridi is not only the source of amusement for people but he became the victim as well.
I quoted from ‘Dawn’, Malik Ameer Muhammad Afridi said “it was the summer of 2008, when members of the LeI arrested me and took me to a religious scholar who declared the moustache un-Islamic and ordered it to be shaved”.
He decided to move to Peshawar where he would be able to grow his moustache freely. He did not go to his hometown for four years and he did not see his relatives due to the threats of shave by militants.
His wife was also not happy with his moustache but he did not take care of anything against his moustache.
Malik Ameer Muhammad Afridi runs an electronics business in Deen Plaza. He was proud of his unique style as no one in Pakistan has this style of moustache. He uses special oil and products to care his whiskers and spends approximately 30 -40minutes daily to curl his moustache in curved form.
He left his family and hometown for the sake of his moustache.
Obviously it would be difficult for him to survive alone far from his family. It seems so funny that he is suffering just because of his moustache but it is his life and he has the right to choose his liking and disliking.
He is implementing this funny statement “Mooch Nahi to Kuch Nahi”.                                                                taken from Bieng Pakistani

About Me

I am student of the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, Kohat University of Science & Technology (KUST), Kohat, KPK, Pakistan. This blog is being run as a project compulsory for the award of B.S Hons degree. Khyber Agency, the land of my dreams, is my hometown.

Physical Verification of Government Employees Lamented Across Fata

KHYBER AGENCY: In compliance with the instruments from the Fata civil secretariat, the Agency Education Office of Khyber Agency completed the process of verification of all the male and female teaching staff much to the objection of a majority of female staff and reservations expressed by the general public about achieving the desired results.


In a directive issued by the Fata Civil Secretariat a week ago, all the government employees working in various government departments across Fata were required to appear before officials of their concerned department for physical verification. The directives were issued in light of mounting criticism by general public about habitual absence of the government employees from their respective departments. It was also alleged that a good number of government employees, especially in the health and education department had taken up lucrative jobs in gulf and other countries.


The Agency Education Office and the Khyber Agency political administration while in their bit to show efficiency and urgency in completion of the assigned task, asked all the male and female teaching staff to appear before the concerned officials at their offices at Jamrud and Landikotal but most of the employees didn't appeared for physical verification as they were not informed at the right time.
Female staff in Landikotal was required to abandon their official duties and travel to Jamrud from far off lociliates like Sheen Pokh and Prang Darra in Loey Shalman and Kharghali,situated on the Afghan border.


Sources in the AEO office said that some female teachers were seen carrying their infant babies and then waiting for hours at the vanue of verification where the arrangements for the ladies staff were also insufficient.


Ali Ahmed of Prang Darra told The News that he had to spend Rs. 6000 to bring female members of his family for physical verification in Jamrud. The two women of his family, he said were Class-IV employees at the girls primary school adjacent to his house.
A female teacher,requested not to be named,said that AEO Atiqur Rehman himself appointed illegally Landikotal AEO.Asking the high ups for inquiry,she said that according to posting law AEO must not be from the same tehsil he was supposed to be appointed.


Amroz Khan,a resident of Sheen Pokh area in Loey Shalman said that his request for verification in Landikotal was denied by the concerned officials despite his repeated demands. He said he spend Rs. 5500 to bring the female staff of the girls school in his village.


When approached, Assistant Agency Education Officer (Female) Ms. Waheeda said that she too was not in favour of asking the female staff to appear in person at the Jamrud office. She said that though a number of the abstaining teachers were either dismissed from their jobs while many more were issued show cause notices in near past, the on going process of verification would not help in achieving the desired results.


She said that instead spot verification would have positive results as it would prove as to whether a certain teacher was attending to his or her duties or not.


It was interesting to know that Ms. Waheeda was not even aware about the actual strength of female staff at the government schools in Jamrud and Landikotal.


It was also interesting to know that despite closure of more than 80 percent of the government schools in Bara sub division, the entire staff, both male and female at these schools were verified as present on their duties.


Agency Education Officer Ateequr Rehman also expressed his displeasure over the 'flawed' procedure of verification and said that his advise was not sought when the said procedure was devised. "It was a mistake and I opposed it when I came back from my visit to Tirah", he clarified.


Haji Hukam Jan, a local elder said that the authorities conducted the exercise in a haste and the female staff was made to suffer both physically and financially by asking them to travel to Jamrud from far off localities.


He said that physical appearance at the AEO office would not expose those who were habitual absentees as they were still not regularly attending to their duties and had taken a day out of their alternate occupations to appear before the concerned officials and obtained a 'bogus clearance certificate'.

Posted by Mr.Ashrafuddin Pirzada at Wednesday, June 04, 2014

LI Asks Schools in Bara to Adopt Uniform System of Education

LANDIKOTAL: The Khyber Agency based banned organization Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) and asked the Bara based private schools owners and principals to make Quran compulsory for all students and adopt uniform education system, sources said on Wednesday.The sources said that on the call of LI commander Qandahar Zakhakhel, around three hundred teachers, principals and owners of the private schools gathered in Mandi Kas area of Bara. Speaking to the teachers and private schools’ owners, Commander Qandahar Zakhakhel said that LI had received complaints of extra dues and English/Urdu max curriculum in the schools.Qandahar said that LI noticed as all the owners, principals and schools teachers were gathered. He asked them that all the private schools should adopt uniform system of education and reduce their dues. He stressed upon the Islamic education said that reciting Quran for all students should be on the top of the school curriculum.
When contacted Private Schools Association (PSA) president Asghar Khan Afridi he said that they were in contact with the LI commanders to peacefully resolve it. Asghar Khan said they were optimistic to reduce the schools’ dues and would adopt government and other standard syllabus in the schools. Posted by Mr.Ashrafuddin Pirzada at Wednesday, June 11, 2014
                                      

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.

Relaxing Restrictions: Bara Road Reopens After Three Years

The road was closed for traffic since September 2009 when the military operation against Lashkar-e-Islam began.
PESHAWAR:

Bara Road, the main route linking Khyber Agency to Peshawar, was reopened after more than three years.

The road was closed for traffic since September 2009 when military operations against Mangal Bagh’s Lashkar-e-Islam began. The road was reopened on Sunday by the Frontier Corps (FC) following repeated requests from residents.

“It has been decided to open the road for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening,” said a Sarband police official. The road will be open for general traffic from 8am to 10 am and 4pm to 6 pm.

“We have been informed by security forces deployed in Bara about the decision and asked to arrange security for vehicular traffic,” he added.

Tribesmen welcomed the move but expressed cautioned regarding the security situation in Bara.

“It is good news that the road will reopen after three years but the real problem remains the law and order in Khyber Agency,” said a local elder. There is the possibility of bomb attacks and there is no guarantee that terrorists would not attack people along the road, he stated.



The closure of Bara Road also resulted in shutting down Bara Bazaar, which was the main centre of economic activity in the area, leaving many jobless. This also forced people to use alternative routes which are long and unpaved to reach Bara.

Former senator Haji Muhammad Shah Afridi visited Bara on Sunday to inform the people about the decision, which he said was a major breakthrough.

Meanwhile, a security official died when unidentified militants opened fire at a check post in Zawa, Akka Khel on Sunday. According to a security forces official, their men retaliated and forced the militants to retreat. However, the injured officer, Naik Gran Wali, succumbed to his wounds en route to the hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 25th, 2013.