11 years on, pupils await school building

11 years on, pupils await school building

Eleven years have passed since the Government Primary School Koheri Bala in Lower Dir was destroyed by an earthquake but children have been forced to study in the open, jeopardizing their future. The earthquake, measuring 7.5 on Richter's magnitude scale, hit northern Afghanistan and Pakistan in October 2015, leaving hundreds of people dead. The government had declared the school building unsafe for use. Later, the damaged building was razed to …