Around 550 girl students in Shangla district quit education halfway every year for various reasons, including inaccessibility, absence of schools, poverty and early marriages, according to sources in the district education department. They said that roughly 22,564 girls between 5 and 9 years of age were out of school in the district. “I wanted to get education and become a …

SHANGLA: Teachers of private and government educational institutions have observed black day in Shangla here on Tuesday, thousands of teachers and civil society members blocked the Karakoram Highway for four hours by staging protest against murder of district education officer Kolai Pallas Kohistan in his office in Pallas. The core committee of teachers formed after the murder of DEO Nawab …

SHANGLA: Participants in a seminar here on Saturday demanded of the government to include the Indus Kohistani and Shina languages in the curriculum of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa text books, also demanded to make the closed girls schools functional. A seminar was arranged by Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT) in the district council hall Komila in Upper Kohistan under the title of “Negotiating …

A flood of students, teachers and civil society members took onto roads at every corner of the district protesting against the murder of district education officer Nawab Ali in Kohistan. The students and teachers of all private and government schools took out rallies on the Karakoram highway and gathered at Bisham square and blocked the main artery for all sorts …

Pakistan Red crescent Society inaugurated a branch and warehouse in Shangla, which is built with the financial support of German Red Cross for long term services to ensure emergency response on time. The inaugural ceremony was held in Lilonai Alpuri where Chaimran PRCS Lieutenant general Hamid Khan was the chief guest, head of office of the German Red Cross Alexander …