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K-P offers free medical education to siblings of APS martyrs

Government will bear all educational, as well as accommodation, costs of students

Our Correspondent April 15, 2017

Soldiers stand guard as parents arrive with their children at the Army Public School in Peshawar on January 12, 2015. PHOTO: AFP

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government on Friday approved a package for providing free medical education to the brothers and sisters of the martyrs of the Army Public School (APS).

The package summary was approved by K-P Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, after it was sent by provincial Health Minister Shahram Khan Tarakai. The package allows the siblings of martyred APS students to seek admission at any college offering medical education across the country.

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It stated that the government will bear all educational, as well as accommodation, cost of the students, adding that the students could seek admission at any government or public sector medical colleges. However, the government has barred the scholarships for students who seek admission on self-finance.

Over 150 people, including school children and staff members, were killed when unidentified armed men attacked the APS school in the provincial capital on December 16, 2014.