- E-Hujra Administration and Alumni of Government High School No.2 issue four-point demand, alleging the century-old institution was demolished in 2022 and quietly dropped from the development programme without public consultation
BANNU 11 SEPTEMBER 2026 (Khyber Mail) – The E-Hujra Administration of Bannu, together with alumni of Government High School No.2, has issued a formal declaration alleging that the historic school was demolished in 2022 without public consultation, and demanding its immediate reconstruction along with a judicial inquiry into how the decision was made.
In a statement the group described Government High School No.2 as one of the Bannu city’s oldest and most prominent educational institutions, saying the school traced its origins back roughly a century to the British era and was built partly through donations from the city’s Hindu and Sikh communities at the time. The group said the school had educated seven generations of students from the same families and, at its peak, enrolled around 3,000 students, with roughly 2,500 still enrolled at the time it was demolished. It said the school’s alumni included judges, doctors, engineers, bureaucrats, army officers and scholars.
According to the group, the school building was demolished in 2022, after which students were left without a functioning campus and the project’s name was subsequently removed from the provincial Annual Development Programme without informing the provincial assembly, consulting parents, or providing an alternate plan for the displaced students. The group characterised the sequence of events as concealment and a breach of due process, though it did not name specific officials or departments responsible, and the claims have not been independently verified or addressed in a public response from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government or district administration at the time of writing.
The group posed a series of questions to the provincial government and district administration, asking who had authorised the demolition of a century-old building without a public hearing, where the associated development budget had been allocated, and what arrangements had been made for the students left without a school.
Setting out a four-point plan, the group demanded that Government High School No.2 be reinstated in the Annual Development Programme within 15 days, with its budget doubled and a “model heritage school” constructed on the original site. It called for a judicial inquiry, to be requested from the Chief Justice of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa High Court, into those responsible for the demolition and the subsequent removal of the project from the development programme. It further demanded that an alternate building, along with furniture and teachers, be provided for the affected students within 48 hours. The group said that if its demands were not met, it would organise a hunger strike, a school shutdown, and pursue the matter in the High Court, in coordination with parents, teachers, students and other organisations in Bannu.
The declaration was issued by Muhammad Asif Qureshi, chairman of E-Hujra and of the Government High School No.2 Islamia Bannu alumni association.