Author: Sudhir Ahmad Afridi

By Sudhir Ahmad Afridi LANDI KOTAL: A seminar in Khyber has laid bare the dire state of girls’ education in the tribal districts, with speakers demanding the government declare an “education emergency” and urgently recruit local women teachers to revive shuttered schools. Held at the district press club in Landi Kotal, the session drew representatives from public and private schools, former education officers, political figures and civil society activists. The mood, by all accounts, was one of alarm at the scale of neglect. Nadia Irshad, principal of the government girls’ degree college, said her institution was running associate and intermediate…