Science, Technology varsity to be established in Kurrum District: Sajid Turi.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Sajid Hussain Turi announced that a science and technology varsity would be established at Kurrum District of the ex-FATA area.

The minister said this University is a catalyst project for the people of tribal areas who had been deprived of their basic rights since the creation of Pakistan, said a press release here on Monday.

Sajid Hussain Turi had a meeting with Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Professor Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed in this regard.

It was decided in the meeting that one university will be established in every district of ex-FATA (commonly known as the newly merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa so that the students of the area do not face any difficulties in obtaining higher education and they would not be deprived of their basic right of getting higher education}.

The progress and prosperity of the region depended on quality education, the minister added.

The educated youth would have more opportunities in this era of competition. 'Education is a form of investment as it provides a stream of income just as any other investment would,' he asserted.

Turi said it has been an ardent desire that universities be established in all tribal districts, including Kurram district and today, he was happy to announce that Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST) in Karam district was being established.

He further added that a formal decision has been taken to establish a university in Parachinar, which would be inaugurated soon and admissions in various fields of science, IT and arts would be announced from the new academic year.

He said that classes initially would be held temporarily in Government College No. 2 Parachinar, but in the previous government...