Frontier Women College celebrates first reunion

The sixty-one year old Frontier College for Women (Frontierians) held its first reunion in 61 years in a very colourful ceremony with thousands of graduates of all ages showing up and expressing their joy at the unique event. Everybody praised the principal Mrs. Naiuzat Liaqat, who initiated and spearheaded the efforts to hold the re-union of the most ancient female college of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Few could match the joy and the length of association of Mrs Musarrat who had been one of the first students of the college, then served as teacher and retired as principal of this college; she could rightly say that the college was her whole life. In her soft spoken way she recalled that the idea of a college for women was discussed way back in the April 1948 with Quaid-e-Azam. After approval of the project, the college was established in the April of 1949. She said that Quaid-e-Azam had said that if his sister had been of college going age, she would have been the first student of this college. The words of the great Quaid showed his pleasure at the establishment of the college as well as its importance for the region. She disclosed that the total cost of the college including the building came to a hundred and five thousand rupees.. While some of the prominent personality, she said the world top Cardiologist, now in US Mrs. Sohala Ali, International Courts of Justices, Khalida Rashad, Arshad Qaiser, Judge of the NAB Court Joint Director Intelligence Bureau Fareeda Bano, known Mrs Ali Begum who had distinction in CSS and above all the golden lady Mrs. Sardar Haider Jaffar, who was the leading woman in Tehrik-e-Pakistan and the one who hoisted the Pakistan's flag along with Mrs Nazir Telah Mohammad on the Civil Secretariat Building in 1947 were some of the prominent graduated from this college. After her speech many old and ancient students of the college were reduced to sobs as they remembered the carefree days of their youth. To turn the sobbing atmosphere into an otherwise Somaila Saleem of the Computer Department was asked by the stage secretary Yusra to show the old building, it corridors, even flowers of that time through a slide show on projector, followed by a Pashto song by Mrs. Shaheen (Bibi Shereene Zarre Gule) lady like yellow flower which enthralled the sitting spectators. Head of the Organizing Committee Dure Shawar Zaman, Assistant Professor Law Department thanked members of the committee including Mrs. Nisahat, of History Department, Roshan, Assistant Professor of Urdu, Azra Khurshid, Assistant Professor of Zoology, Assistant Professor Shahida Gillani of Home Economic, who excellent decorated the stage, Mrs Taleem Shahid, Mrs. Naheed Haider. Earlier, the ceremony was started with recitation from Holy Quran Syeda Shehnaz, followed by Sadaf Saeed with a melodious Naat. Saba Javed presented a poem for the old fellow with the theme "Wo Range Suba Kabi Na Pole" and national song by Sadaf with her melodious voice that really turned the whole complexion into joyful moments for the Frontierians.