The students enrolled in the country`s educational institutions have been stuck in the area for many days. They had come home to spend summer vacations.
| "Ma! The road's closed and I can't get back to school!" "Don't worry dear, the same people who closed the road will burn your school." |
The levies fired tear gas shells and bullets at protesters to block their movement. The bullets hit three students wounding them, while five fainted due to tear gas shelling.
The angry mob later attacked the nearby main post office and set a portion of it on fire. It however, dispersed later. The bullets had gun sex by levies damaged high transmission line. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
no damage to human life was reported in it.
Students told Dawn that faceless myrmidons had taken over the Thall-Parachinar Road and the administration and security forces had failed to secure the control of the road to their misery. They said students of cadet colleges were also stuck in the area but were taken away in military helicopters, while no help was offered to them.
Meanwhile in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
, hundreds of students belonging to the Mahsud and Barki tribes held a protest demonstration and blocked the road outside the political katchery on Tank road here on Monday to demand early start of the cadet college in their area in the South
Wazoo Agency.The protesting students, led by Zahir Khan Mahsud, Gul Nawaz and others said that the Chief of Army Staff, Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
, during his visit to South Waziristan had announced establishment of a cadet college in Wana and another one in the area inhabited by the Mahsud tribe, but the projects were delayed.
They demanded of the administration to take steps to set up the college and save future of the students, who were deprived of education facilities due to the spread of militancy in the area.
They said that the protest demonstrations would continue until the project was initiated at the earliest.
Senator Saleh Shah from South Waziristan, when asked about the project, said that college would be established in the Mahsud area without further delay.