GUJAR KHAN: Students of Government Girls High School Guliyana, Gujar Khan, are forced to study while squatting on the cold classroom floors due to non-availability of student furniture.
Parents of the girls pointed out that Government Girls High School Guliyana was established decades ago and remains one of the most prominent schools in Gujar Khan tehsil, with a large catchment area.
They added that landowners had generously donated valuable land for the establishment and expansion of the school building to support education of their daughters.
Shehzad Ahmed Qureshi, a native of the village residing abroad, told Dawn that Guliyana has long been a centre of learning, noting that the Boys High School was established in the pre-partition era and that the town was once known as “The Town of School Masters”.
Mr Qureshi regretted that a town with such a legacy of valuing education was now seeing its daughters forced to sit on cold ground in a school campus that also lacked a proper boundary.
Teachers at the school told this reporter that a large number of students frequently suffer from colds and pneumonia due to sitting on freezing floors during the winter spell.
Raja Shaukat Aziz Bhatti, MPA of PML-N, when contacted, said the girls of this school were facing a very awkward situation due to non-availability of benches, desks, chairs and other fixtures.
The MPA also confirmed that the recently donated land for the school was still without a boundary, leaving hundreds of girls in insecure conditions. However, he said he had already brought these issues to the attention of the chief executive officer (CEO) of the District Education Authority Rawalpindi.
According to sources, the headmistress of the school has already reported these issues to the authorities concerned.
The residents have urged Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif to take serious notice of the situation and ensure provision of missing facilities to the girls’ school on a priority basis.
Published in Dawn, December 8th, 2025.
