KHYBER: Muhammad Tayyab Shinwari secured first position in the Senior School Certificate (SSC) examination for the academic year 2018 by securing 1012 marks in Landi Kotal, a town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The brilliant student attributed his success and achievement to his parents. Belonging to a poverty-stricken family of Khuga Khel, Shinwari’s father Muhammad Sadiq Shinwari has requested the government and philanthropists for financial support or avail any scholarship programme for his son, who seeks higher education. Shinwari’s teachers called him an extra-ordinary, dedicated and a hardworking student, who had achieved excellent positions from the first grade at school. Published in Daily Times, June 29th 2018.