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), Pakhtunkhwa 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.
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