Nation wins freedom
It was after partition of the Sub
Continent (1947) when the Chief Minister Abdul Qayuum Khan amended the law and non-lineage
pukhtoons / craftsmen could have a house / shelter of their own.
Abdul Qayyum Khan took immense interest
in development works. Free education for all girls up to Matric and up to
Middle for boys irrespective of discrimination in fee slabs for landed and
other people go to his credit. He established Peshawar University laying a strong
foundation for modern education leading to Medicine and Engineering and other Sciences.
A no of students from Marghuz are luminaries of Peshawar University.
Warsak dam and Hydel power station
(1958) so also Malakand and Dargai Power Stations were constructed in his
tenure as Chief Minister. He played a pioneer role in village electrification.
I was a child when he had come to Marghuz to inaugurate the electrification of
Marghuz in ‘hujra Habib Khan Aka khel’. Habib Khan is the grand uncle of the
present Speaker of Provincial Assembly Pukhtoon khwa Asad Qaiser.
Lift irrigation pumping station at ‘kade’ on ‘Badri
Nala and Pehur canal on Indus River were
constructed when he was the Chief Minister.
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