Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: All Teachers Association(ATA) Landilotal chapter office bearers on Wednesday condemned the school teacher’s abduction in the strongest possible words and demanded his forthwith release.
Speaking at a crowded press conference here in Landikotal press club All Teachers Association chairman Rahid Shah Afridi, Deputy chairman Malik Nader Shah and other government school teachers condemned the abduction of a senior government school teacher Stana Gul Afridi. They said that unknown people from Landikotal bazaar picked him up on Tuesday. They demanded that the government take serious steps for the safe release of their colleague.
Teachers including Farman, Shad Akbar, Khan Bahadur and Shafiq Rahman also spoke.
They said that teacher Satana Gul Afridi was abducted by unidentified men wearing masks from outside the Tehsil gate in Landikotal.
The teachers said they met with the Landikotal Station House Officer(SHO) Amjad Khan Afridi but to no avail.
Malik Nadar Shah said it was unacceptable to them to pick up a teacher without prior notice and inform the District Education Officer(DEO). He said the method of summoning teachers for investigation under pretenses was against the law and unacceptable.
Rahid Shah said if Stana Gul was being wanted in any case he would have appeared before the authorities. He said Satana Gul was called by the police station’s Moharrer who admitted it, stating that Satana Gul had been questioned and then released.
They said as Satana Gul was out of the Tehsil compound in Landilotal he was picked up after leaving the gate.
Rahid said they requested CCTV footage but the SHO said that the cameras installed near the official compound gate were outdated.
The teachers threatened that if Satana Gul was not released within a few hours they would be compelled to give the protest call at the merged districts level and would file a case against the Landikotal SHO.
They accused SHO Amjad Khan Afridi that the situation in Landikotal went deteriorated after he was posted. They also announced that they would no longer cooperate with the administration, condemning the deceit and humiliation inflicted upon them.
It may be added here that Stana Gul Afridi, the missing school teacher, was the close relative of the slain journalist Khalil Jibran Afridi who was gunned down on June 18 in Ladikotal.
