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LANDI KOTAL: The principals of at least five government high schools in Landi Kotal are not performing their duty regularly despite several reminders and show-cause notices issued to them by the education department, according to official sources.
Agency Education Officer Ateequr Rehman, through a letter, has recommended to Fata Secretariat to take ‘punitive disciplinary actions’ against all the absentee officials of his department so that they mend their ways and perform their duty regularly.
Mr Rehman said that the principal of Government High School Landi Kotal, Dr Mohammad Hanif Khan, was working as a lecturer in Qurtaba University Hayatabad and was thus compromising his official responsibilities for over a year and putting the said school at the mercy of a junior teacher Kamal Khan.
He said that the ‘caretaker’ principal had allotted a classroom of the school to a sweeper where he was residing with his family.
The agency education officer said that owing to continuous absence of Fazalur Rehman, the principal of Government High School Mohammad Khan Kallay, the strength of students of metric classes had shrunk so much that the institution couldn’t justify its existence as a high school as per rules.
The agency education officer said that despite several complaints by the elders and parents of studnets, Zahid Khan, the principal Government High School Kharghali, had sublet his official responsibilities to a junior teacher Riaz Afridi and he himself came to the school once in a month only to draw his monthly salary.
He said that principals of government high schools in Kam Shalman and Pran Darra in Loe Shalman too were not performing their duty regularly and came to the schools only for getting their monthly salaries.
PRESS CLUB: The construction work on the building of Jamrud Press Club is far from complete despite the expiry of the stipulated time in May, causing hardships for local journalists to fulfil their professional responsibilities.
Sajid Ali Kukikhel, the president of Jamrud Press Club, told Dawn that the concerned contractor had so far handed them over only a hall in the upper portion of the building which too was without electricity and furniture.
He said that despite several complaints to the concerned quarters, the entire building was still without ceiling fans and other necessary electric fittings.
Mr Kukikhel demanded of the administration to prevail upon the contractor in order to expedite the remaining work of the press club along with provision of all necessary office items on time.

Published in Dawn, June 4th, 2015