Ashrafuddin Pirzada
PESHAWAR: Office bearers of the non-profit organization “Gurguri Welfare Trust” and social workers have appealed to the government to provide them protection to start the construction work on the lone girls’ school in Gururi village of Tehsil Banda Daud Shah in District Karak.
Speaking at a crowded press conference in Peshawar on Thursday, Gurguri Welfare Trust press Secretary Mubashir Ahmed, social worker Musa Khan and others said that a resident Ahsanullah Muhammad Ayaz and his family donated two kanals of land in Gurguri village for the girls’ school in 2021. He said when they started construction work on the school building in 2022, some residents opposed the initiative and created problems for them to stop the construction work on the school building but continued the construction work. He said Mubashir added that the Gurguri Welfare Trust organized charity events to convince residents to support girls’ education and raise funds for the school building construction.
He said due to the unavailability of girls’ schools within a 50-kilometre radius in the Gurguri village, affecting around 3,000 girls, their future was at risk.
Musa Khan, a social worker, said that local militants were later involved and threatened to stop the girls’ school building set on fire the Ahsanullah’s property and abducted Mubashir Ahsanullah three years ago.
He said after negotiations of local Jirga with the Taliban, Mubashir was released and was badly torched while Ahsanullah Muhammad Ayaz fled from Pakistan after Taliban terrorists threatened him to kill for his social work and for helping girls to seek education.
Khan said they want to start construction work on the long-awaited lone girl’s school in Gurguri village which could save the future of thousands of girls so far out of school.
The social worker said education was the basic and constitutional right of girls like boys who should be given priority. He said educated mothers could give birth to a social and educated nation. He said to fight extremism they should focus on girls’ education.
The Gurguri Welfare Trust office bearers appealed to the law enforcement agencies, civil administration and education department officials to provide them with security and financial assistance so that they could start construction work on the long-awaited dream of the residents.
