Balakot school not rebuilt for 14 years.

MANSEHRA -- The residents of Lower Kanshian area in Balakot tehsil have threatened to block the Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad Road over a long delay in the reconstruction of the government primary school in their area.

'The school was destroyed by the 2005 earthquake but it has yet to be rebuilt adversely affecting the cause of education in the area,' resident Khushal Khan told reporters on Friday.

Accompanied by other locals, Mr Khushal said the schoolchildren along with parents and residents protested the long delay in reconstruction outside

the education department's offices in Peshawar and Mansehra, but to no avail.

He said a cold wave had swept the area following snowfall in parts of Kaghan valley, so the students...