| I dunno why, but they're all being renamed for Robert Byrd... |
The caretaker NWFP government has decided to change the names of schools that were named after leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), a private TV channel reported on Saturday. Talking to Express News, the NWFP Education secretary said names of the schools would be changed to reflect their respective districts or famous figures.
The formerly ruling religious alliance had named the schools it established after its politicians, according to the provincial Education Department. The Education Department had dispatched a summary containing such school names to the NWFP chief minister, the channel reported. It said that the names included those of MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Maulana Mufti Mehmud, father of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and former provincial minister Sirajul Haq. |