Tirah residents seek construction of new schools
(WorldNews Pakistan)

TIRAH: The people of Maidan area in Tirah valley in Khyber district have asked the government to construct new schools to provide educational facilities to the children of the poor people. They said people in Maidan were displaced during militancy and they returned to native areas in 2013, but no government school has been established so far. The local people said that hundreds of students belonging to Maidan had no option but to go to schools located in the Kurram district near the boundary of the Khyber district. Talking to The News, Muhammad Usman Afridi said the militants had destroyed over a 100 schools and health facilities in the Bara tehsil in Khyber district during the decade-long...