By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Saya Welfare Organization conduct an Essay competition on the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad(SAW) and distributed laptops, mobiles and certificates among the position-holder students of different schools in Landikotal.
The prize distribution ceremony was held at Landikotal Jirga Hall which was attended by a large number of students, parents, officials and civil society members on Sunday.
The Khyber tribal district Zakat committee chairman Maulana Ihsanullah Junaidi was the chief guest while Awami National party leader Malik Darya Khan Zakhakhel, Muhammad Ilyas Benuri alias Khan Lala, Pakistan People’s Party leader Nadeem Afridi and other political parties leaders also attended the ceremony.
Speaking on the occasion, Saya Welfare Organization Sayed Saliman Benuri said that they had arranged a written competition in which a good number of students from different schools and colleges students from Landikotal participated. He said none of the nations could go on the way of progress and development without the quality of education. He said they want to develop the nation through education for all.
Benari demanded of the government to establish a modern university in the district Khyber, especially for women who could get higher education in the nearest possible location. He said they were doing every possible effort in the promotion of education but would need the support of every individual who could make difference.
Mulana Ihsanullah Junaidi said that his mission was to enlighten the life of youth with both Islamic and modern education.
He said they under the supervision and support of the federal minister for religious affairs doctor Noorul Haq Qadri run more than two hundred religious in Pakistan. He said they teach modern and Islamic books to thousands of children to adjust to the need of the time.
Junaidi said that gone were the days when religious Madrassas were providing purely Islamic education but with the broad vision of the federal minister doctor Noorul Haq Qadri and to bring the seminary graduates to the same level as the university. He said they have started Information technology, English and other subjects in their seminaries and in the process of further adopting other modern life subjects in their Madrassas.
He said they feel proud that his seminaries students have taken part in different competitions nationwide and excelled in them.
ANP leader Malik Darya Khan Zakhakhel, PPP leader Malikzada Nadeem Afridi and others also spoke and highlighted the importance and value of education.
The chief guest at the end distributed laptops, mobile cell phones, school uniforms and certificates among the position holders.
It may be mentioned here that students of Shinwari college Mujeebullah got first, Army school student Muhammad Bilal second and Muhammad Wasim got third position.
