Challenging authority: Pharmacy students urge K-P govt to address registration issue

Threaten to protest outside K-P Assembly

PESHAWAR: Students of the pharmacy department at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal pressed the provincial government to address issues involving their registration with the pharmacy council on urgent basis.

Speaking to journalists at Peshawar Press Club on Friday, a group of students said they had been admitted to the programme in 2010.

“We are now in our final year,” one of the speakers said. “Over the last five years, the pharmacy department has not been registered with the council.”

According to the student, a meeting was held with Vice Chancellor Khan Bahadar Marwat and chairman of the department in this regard.

“They assured us that our grievances would be addressed,” he said. “However, nothing has been done so far. Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had also taken notice of the issue and had directed the relevant authorities to take action. But all efforts went in vain.”

Warning bells

The pharmacy students said they were already on strike for the past 15 days and will hold protest outside the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on September 7 and even approach the high court if the matter is not addressed.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 29^th, 2015.