KP Govt Urged To Fund Hindko Academy.

Peshawar -- A literary and cultural organisation, Gandhara Hindko Board, has expressed concern over the non-allocation of funds for meeting the running expenditures of the Hindko Academy and asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and Acting Governor Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani to ensure proper financial resources for the research body being run on a public-private partnership basis.

A press release issued by the board deplored non-inclusion of the Hindko Academy Phase-III Scheme in the annual development plan (ADP) of the KP government's recently-unveiled budget and instead apportioning only Rs10 million for the construction of the academy's building.

It said Hindko is the sixth main regional language of the country and the second most widely spoken language of KP, which has always been ignored by the successive governments.

It recalled that the dream of having a Hindko Academy in KP came true in 2015: almost 68 years after the independence of the country: when the previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government in the province set up the research body under the public-private partnership.

It said Gandhara Hindko Board has proved to be a good implementing partner of the Higher Education Department of the KP government in running the academy efficiently and its work has won acknowledgement by the relevant department and people in general.

The board said the Hindko...