...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...on Friday issued show-cause notices to over 200 teachers of various government schools and collages for remaining absent from duty, as educational institutions in the tribal agency opened on July 1 after summer vacations.
Confirming this, an official of the local education department told this correspondent on Friday that bigwigs of the department had warned the teachers to join their duty immediately or face action. He said that over 200 teachers, most of the women, were found absent during inspections of education institutions.
"An inspection team comprising several assistant education officers has visited various schools of the agency over public complaints about absence of teachers," Sarwar Khan, a bigwig of the department, told Dawn on Friday. The officials said that several schools in the agency, including those in Chamarkand, Nawagi, Charmang, Salarzia and Mamond tehsil, even remained closed on Friday. "Most of teachers of girl schools are non-locals and due to lack of any checks they always join their duty late after vacations," the sources said.