MARDAN: Abdul Wali Khan University has been reopened 40 days after student
Mashal Khan’s lynching incident.
According to reports, five campuses of the university, including Chitral, Buner, Timergara and Pabbi were reopened.
The Shankar Campus will reopen on May
24 whereas the Garden Campus where
Mashal was lynched
by a vigilante mob will be reopened on 25th.
Police conducted a search operation in hostels before reopening of the campuses, and seized four pistols, 10
magazines and drugs.
The chehlum of
Mashal Khan was held in Zaida, Swabi on Sunday.
Swabi Nazim Ameer Rehman, who is also the chairman of
Mashal Khan Action Committee, laid a floral wreath at the grave and prayed for the departed soul.
Later, he spoke at a function held at Zaida Cricket Ground to remember
Mashal. Workers of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Awami National Party (ANP), Pakhtunkh
wa Ulasi Tehreek, lawyers, Baloch nationalists and an Afghan diplomat also attended the event.
Rehman said that the university where
Mashal was killed should be named after him and he should be placed under the Shaheed package by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.