Schools of poor without guards, cameras, boundary walls: Elahi

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) senior central leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said the government schools for the children of the poor were without security guards, cameras and even some without boundary walls despite all the tall claims of Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif.
He expressed concern over noticing the highly defective security situation during his visit to Government Higher Secondary School Kathala in Gujart near the army camp which was attacked by terrorists in the past.
Elahi observed that there were neither security guards nor cameras installed at the government school and the main outer wall was missing. Talking to parents who had gathered on the occasion, the PML-Q leader said that Shahbaz Sharif was making tall claims about the security in the media that everything had been set right whereas in reality his performance was just zero due to which lives of lakhs of students of thousands of schools were at stake.
Kathala School students were happy to find Pervaiz Elahi among them and raised enthusiastic slogans of “Long Live Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi”. Elahi mixed up among students, made queries about their studies and gave them advice as well.
Students told him that there were no security arrangements whatsoever but they were not afraid of terrorists and would continue their studies with greater attention and devotion in a determined manner.
Expressing their apprehensions about the security, parents of students said that none was bothered about the wellbeing of the children studying in the government schools. They said that under Elahi’s tenure special attention was paid to provision of educational facilities and buildings of schools and colleges in the public sector. The added that children were given free books and stipends but now the government was not paying any attention in this regard.
Elahi said these children were a future of Pakistan, their protection was a duty of the government and it should take effective steps immediately for their protection. On this occasion, Mian Imran Masood, Ch Ilyas Warraich, Zulfiqar Pappan, Naseer Sindhu and other Muslim League-Q leaders also accompanied Pervaiz Elahi.