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ALLOCATION OF RESERVED SEATS

I would like to draw the attention of concerned authorities & to request them to look into the admission policy of University of Peshawar. Last night while surfing the internet, I been through the official website of University of Peshawar, I was surprised to notice that there is only ONE reserved seat for Chitrali students, for which Chitralians have to vie with candidates of Northern-Areas, where the number of reserved seat is very few as compared to the number of students desirous to get higher education. On the other hand the allocation of reserved seats for Tribal Areas and other districts has been greater than before. As Chitral is an isolated remote District of N-W.F.P. stretched in an area of 14850sq KM -- which covers one-fifth of the total area of the province -- having population of 390000, having 50.5% literacy rate (Male 59%, Female 42%) according to EU reports, which is quite higher as compared to other districts of N-W.F.P.

My question to the authorities concerned and higher-ups of the N-W.F.P. is, why this discrimination? Why the Policy makers give cold shoulder to Chitrali students? Why the reserved seats in every department for their kith-and-kin of University employees? Why . . . ?

I would make a clarion call to the authorities concerned and policy makers to take immediate action in this regard. They should also allocate seats to Chitrali Students ONLY and not share it with the Northern-Areas, or make all seats on open merits, so that, a merit base, fair selection can take place or otherwise.

Rashid Kureshi
Chitral

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Congrat: Message for Ijaz Ahmad

Dear Editor,

Through your reputed online paper, i wanna convey my heartiest congratulations to Ejaz Ahmad for his great research work and publication of the same in Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) Forest products series on forest products and livelihood in chitral region. Indeed, it is a great achievement and being Chitrali, we are proud of you, Ejaz. May God bless you lots of success in your service with Forestry Department.

NADIA TABASUM
univestry of Punjab