Malakand BISE employees protest proposed autonomy law

TIMERGARA: Employees of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Malakand on Monday continued token strike on the 17th consecutive day and boycotted duties after 2pm in protest against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa proposed act.

The protesting employees threatened to boycott the upcoming intermediate examination if the government failed to accept their demands till April 20. The board employees wore black armbands and staged a protest rally on the board premises.

Speaking on the occasion, speakers alleged that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had planned to abolish boards’ autonomy and wanted to bring them under the control of the education secretariat.

They believed the proposed act would hurt the autonomous status of educational boards in the province, which would increase miseries of students, parents and teachers as well. The employees said they would not let the government implement “Adam Smith educational policy” that was aimed at disturbing the boards’ examination system.

The employees also threatened to stage protest rallies at Banigala near residence of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan if the government did not reverse its decision about the law.

JI REJECTS DELIMITATION: The Jamaat-e-Islami, Lower Dir chapter, while rejecting the delimitation of constituencies on Monday announced to move the courts against the ECP’s decision. A consultative meeting of the party was held at Balambat, with its district emir and former MNA Maulana Asadullah in the chair.

MNA Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, MPAs Izazul Mulk Afkari, Saeed Gul, general secretary Musharaf Shah Jan, Lal Qilla nazim Bakhtiar Khan, Samarbagh tehsil nazim Saeed Ahmad Bacha and JI executive council members attended the meeting.

The participants of the meeting expressed anger and dissatisfaction at the proposed delimitation of constituencies made by the ECP and demanded fresh constituencies as per a resolutions passed by the Lower Dir council.

They said the party had submitted objections and suggestion to the ECP but those were turned down without any solid reason. The participants said that three union councils of Samarbagh had been included in PK-17 which had no logic.