Daily Times

PESHAWAR: Former MNA and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Shura member Abdul Akbar Chitrali on Thursday threatened to launch a countrywide movement if University of Chitral (UoC) was not established. “We do not believe on the up-gradation of the so-called Abdul Wali Khan University campus in Chitral” he said in a press conference at Peshawar Press Club. The JI leader said that district Chitral had 65 colleges wherein thousands of Chitrali students completes their graduation and go for taking admission in various universities across the country.

Flanked by Shamsher Khan, Tehsil Chitral Nazim and Khan Hayat Ullah Khan, naib Nazi, Mr Abdul Akbar said that it was the right and dream of thousands of Chitrali students to establish a university having all facilities and equipment for them. He said that they did not want universities in the name of political leaders wherein students got involved in politics instead of getting an education, adding Chitral was part of Pakistan and they were in favour of UoC.

He added that funds were allocated to developmental projects from national exchequer which was collected from the masses through budget therefore the university should not be named after political leaders. He maintained that that they had launched a movement for the establishment of University of Chitral for the last two years and now the time had come to give the movement a practical shape across Pakistan. “Abdul Wali Khan University and Benazir Bhutto University have opened its campuses in Chitral but the campuses are nominal and lack laboratories and libraries” he said.

He appreciated provincial finance minister Muzzafer Said and local government minister Inayat Ullah Khan for suggesting funds for the said university in provincial budget session. He demanded that the government to establish a full fledge university for Chitrali students otherwise they would expedite their movement.