By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
KHYBER AGNCY: Assistant Political Agent
(APA), Muhammad Tayyab Abdullah, has said that they will provide assistance to
the Al-khidmat Foundation for helping poor people and urged that utilize their
resources to insure quality of education in all schools in Landikotal.
APA Muhammad Tayab Abdullah was addressing
to a gathering of the orphan students, teachers, local elders and Al-khidmat
Foundation workers held here in Landikotal Jirga hall on Wednesday.
The official praised Al-Khidmat efforts
said that the foundation was truly helping poor people including orphan
children and widows all over in Pakistan. He urged rich people and philanthropists
to come forward and join hands with Al-khidmat to help poor children so that
they could get education. Tayyab announced Rs 0.1 million aid for Al-Khidmat
Foundation and vowed that he would appeal high-ups’ for more grants to help
Al-khidmat Foundation.
Fata Al-Khidmat Foundation president, Awal
Gul Afridi on the behalf of Al-khidmat foundation distributed books and other
stationary of different grades were distributed among orphan students. Afridi said
that Al-khidmat was providing services in education, health, provision of
potable water and other social sectors in the area. Quoting the UNICEF figures,
Afridi said 4.2 million children in Pakistan were orphans which he said increasing
day by day due to many unfortunate deaths of parents. He said the alarming
situation of rise in orphans needs to be addressed forthwith to initiate effective
plans to bring them up as useful citizen of Pakistan. He said Al-khidmat
facilitating 108 students in Khyber Agency in which 31 orphan students were from
tehsil Landikotal.
JI senior Fata leaders Muqtader Shah
Afridi, Banaris Shinwari, Abdur-Rauf and Ikhtayar Badshah also spoke on the
occasion.
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