Govt schools for the children of the poor are without security guards: Ch Pervaiz Elahi

Lahore: Pakistan Muslim League -Q senior central leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Ch Parvez Elahi has said that govt schools for the children of the poor were without security guards, cameras and even some with without boundary walls and unsafe despite all tall claims of the Chief Minister Punjab.

He felt much concerned on noticing highly defective security situation during his visit to Govt Higher Secondary School Kathala near Gujrat near the army camp which was attacked by terrorists sometime back.

Ch Parvez Elahi saw there no security guard nor cameras were installed and main outer wall was not there.

Talking to the parents who had gathered there on the occasion on seeing him, Ch Parvez Elahi said that Shahbaz Sharif was making tall claims about security on the media that everything has been set right whereas in reality his performance was just zero, due to defective security arrangements lives of lakhs of students of thousands of schools were at stake, if God-forbid any terrorist activity occurred then who will responsible for that ?, contrary to all tall claims of the govt he had not seen anything like security in any school.

Kathala Higher Security School students were happy to find Ch Parvez Elahi among them and raised enthusiastic slogans of “Long Live Ch Parvez Elahi”. Ch Parvez Elahi mixed up among the students, made queries about their studies and gave them few advices also.

Students told him that there was no security arrangement whatsoever but they were not afraid of terrorists and will continue our studies with greater attention and devotion in a determined manner.

Expressing their apprehensions about security, parents of the students said that none was bothered about well-being of the children studying in the govt schools. They said that his (Ch Parvez Elahi) tenure special attention was paid to provision of educational facilities and buildings of the schools and college in the education sector, children given free books and stipend but now the govt was not paying any attention in this regard.

Ch Parvez Elahi said that these children were the future of Pakistan, their protection was the duty of the govt, the govt should take effective steps immediately for their protection.

On this occasion Mian Imran Masood, Ch Ilyas Warraich, Zulfiqar Pappan, Naseer Sindhu and other Muslim League leaders also accompanied Ch Parvez Elahi.