KHYBER AGENCY: The Mansha Education Society on Tuesday asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor and Khyber Agency Political Agent to construct a building for school in Bara tehsil where free education was being imparted to the poor girls. Talking to this scribe, Mansha Education Society Director Humaira Khan said that her organization was striving to provide education to the girls in the underdeveloped areas. She said the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) lagged behind in all fields, particularly the education sector. “The education institutions, hospitals, roads, basic health units and other necessary infrastructure were destroyed in military operations against the militants in Fata,” she added. She asked the government to repair the damaged schools to increase literacy rate and to provide education opportunities to the girls in the tribal areas. “The education ratio among the boys and girls is very low in Khyber Agency that has been in the grip of militancy in recent years. Militancy and subsequent military operations have dealt a deadly blow to the education sector in Bara,” she said, adding that many schools were bombed in Bara that were ye to be rebuilt. She added though she belonged to Nowshera district, she preferred to work in Khyber Agency to raise awareness among the local people about the importance of education. “We are providing free education to children in a rented house in Alamgudar area, but we find it difficult to pay the rent as we are short of resources,” she said. Humaira Khan said a tribesman donated an eight kanal plot of land for the establishment of the school, but her organization didn’t have enough funds to construct it. She maintained that they enrolled girl students at her school last year. “Some 370 girl students have been enrolled at the school being run by the Mansha Education Society. We are providing free of charge education to the children,” she said. Humaira Khan asked the government and the political administration to provide transport facility to teachers coming for duty from Peshawar to Bara. She asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor and the Fata Secretariat to construct a building so that she could continue to provide education to the girls. Education: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor Engr. Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has said, education is of high importance on the agenda of the incumbent Government which indeed is a constant process. It is because of this very fact that the Higher education today has virtually reached the door step of the students, he added. This he stated while addressing the 9th Convocation ceremony of City University of Science and Information Technology in Peshawar on Wednesday. President of the University, Saboor Sethi; Vice Chancellor Dr. Attaullah, teachers, parents of the graduating students and a large number of students were present on this occasion. The Governor, who is also the patron of the university, conferred degrees to a total of 350 graduating students of various disciplines and 16 among them were given gold medals on their distinctive achievement in respective disciplines. “Your persistence efforts and hard work has finally paid off and you are about to enter a new chapter of your lives where fresh challenges and opportunities await you,” the Governor said. He appreciated the services of Peshawar Model Educational System for securing respectable position amongst the top universities of the country especially engaged in the field of Computer Science and Information Technology. This is a commendable achievement and we appreciate it, the Governor said. In fact, he said, there has been a rapid increase in the number of colleges and universities over the last few years which definitely will play an indispensable role in progress of the entire nation. Earlier, the President, Saboor Sethi said that the university offers friendly educational environment at its campus and the quality of educational facilities are well acknowledged by the Higher Education Commission.