The teacher who fell fighting: SDA demands Tamgha-e-Jurat for Professor Hamid

SWABI:

The Swabi Democratic Alliance has demanded the federal government award the Tamgha-e-Jurat or medal of courage to the late Professor Hamid Hussain who lost his life in the Bacha Khan University attack on January 20.

The demand was made at a meeting of SDA members and the district nazim in Swabi on Wednesday. Participants paid rich tributes to Hussain and lauded services rendered by him in the field of education.

Later, participants placed a floral wreath on the grave of Hussain.

Meanwhile, unions of government and autonomous bodies at a joint meeting demanded the government provide permanent employment to widow of the victim.

Hussain joined Bacha Khan University as an assistant professor in 2014 after he completed his PhD in Chemistry from University of Bristol, UK in 2012.

Only 35, he was the first University of Peshawar student who completed his PhD in chemistry from UK. He obtained his MPhil in organic chemistry from University of Peshawar in 2006.

Hussain was married in 2012 and leaves behind a wife and two children.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 28^th,  2016.