By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Students unions on Wednesday organized a protest demonstration outside Landikotal press club and demanded the restoration of cellular internet service in the merged tribal districts.
A large number of students from Landikotal postgraduate college, Islamia College University and Peshawar University marched in Landikotal bazaar and chanted slogans against the suspension of cellular internet service in the merged tribal districts. They were holding banners inscribed with slogans of rejecting online classes and restoration of internet facilities in the erstwhile Fata areas.
Speaking on the occasion, Peshawar University Khyber students union president Abudarda Shinwari said that until less internet is not restored in the merged districts they reject online classes. He said it was against human rights to deny anyone access to the basic facility. Vice president of Khyber students union Haris Shinwari said the government had suspended cellular internet service on June 216 in tribal districts. He said everyone under the universal declaration of human rights and the 19 act of the constitution of Pakistan had the right to express themselves. He said due to the unavailability of cellular internet facility future of thousands of tribal students was at risk as they have no access to take online classes in the merged districts.
The students’ union leaders said that their studies severely had suffered in the past fifteen years long militancy and now they had been deprived to have access to internet service which was against the constitution of Pakistan. They demanded of the government to resume cellular internet service as peace was restored in the erstwhile Fata areas.
Transporters staged protest: Truckers blocked the Peshawar-Torkham highway at Sultankhel for some to record their protest against strict rules imposed on them to cross the Torkham border. They said dozens of their trucks were damaged in traffic accidents in Afghanistan as they were not allowed cross while an untrained driver in Afghanistan was supposed to drive who damage their trucks. They also demanded the government to take quick steps and help bring their hundreds of trucks stranded in Afghanistan for several months.
