LI asks schools in Bara to adopt uniform system of education

LANDIKOTAL: The Khyber Agency based banned organization Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) and asked the Bara based private schools owners and principals to make Quran compulsory for all students and adopt uniform education system, sources said on Wednesday.

The sources said that on the call of LI commander Qandahar Zakhakhel, around three hundred teachers, principals and owners of the private schools gathered in Mandi Kas area of Bara. Speaking to the teachers and private schools’ owners, Commander Qandahar Zakhakhel said that LI had received complaints of extra dues and English/Urdu max curriculum in the schools.Qandahar said that LI noticed as all the owners, principals and schools teachers were gathered. He asked them that all the private schools should adopt uniform system of education and reduce their dues. He stressed upon the Islamic education said that reciting Quran for all students should be on the top of the school curriculum.

When contacted Private Schools Association (PSA) president Asghar Khan Afridi he said that they were in contact with the LI commanders to peacefully resolve it. Asghar Khan said they were optimistic to reduce the schools’ dues and would adopt government and other standard syllabus in the schools.