[DAWN] QUETTA: A teenage girl from Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
's Killa Saifullah district, who led a protest against suspension of classes at her college owing to a shortage of female teachers, did away with himself on Friday after the college principal refused to send her examination form to the intermediate education board, family members claim.
17-year-old Saqiba Kakar, who was a second year intermediate student, and 12 other girls were suspended from sitting their intermediate final exams by Principal Abida Ghous of Government Girls Degree College, Muslim Bagh, allegedly for staging a demonstration outside the Quetta Press Club in June 2015 demanding resumption of classes at their institution.
The girls, who had travelled all the way to Quetta last year to stage a protest, said the principal had cancelled classes because there were "no female teachers at the school".
In a video obtained by DawnNews, a group of burqa-clad girls from the school talk to a news hound purportedly outside the Quetta Press Club, where they had gathered to raise their voices for their right to education.
In the footage, the girls claim they have no objection to being taught by male instructors, and despite their parents having held meetings with the college administration, classes remained suspended.