PHC moved against relocation of Mansehra girls college.

MANSEHRA -- The residents of Parhana and adjoining areas have moved the Peshawar High Court's Circuit Bench in Abbottabad against the relocation of the area's only girls degree college.

'The college has been functioning in a rented building here for many years but the education department recently ordered its relocation to Shergarh area in Oghi tehsil, so we've challenged that unjustified move in the court of law,' general secretary of the district bar association Fahad Habib told reporters here on Tuesday.

Former tehsil nazim Bashiruddin Tanoli and a group of people from Parhana and adjoining areas were also present on the occasion.

Mr Habib said the college was approved by former provincial minister Habibur Rehman Tanoli before the government ordered land acquisition for it.

'This government not only ordered the college's relocation but it also stopped the land's acquisition. All this is unacceptable to us,' he said.

Ex-minister offers land for college building

Mr Tanoli said the petition had sought the court's orders to strike down the government's notification for the college's relocation, which had threatened the future of over 200 students.

Meanwhile, former minister Habib Tanoli also filed a petition with the court saying he's ready to provide land for the college's building Parhana area free of charge.

INAUGURATED: Parliamentary secretary for energy and water resources MNA Salah Mohammad Khan on Tuesday inaugurated the Rs1.5 billion work on the Battakundia Bridge and Naran-Jalkhad section of Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad Road.

'The completion of both bridge...