New Lens Pakistan | Kashif Nawab | Oct. 18, 2019
Shah Farman the KPK Governor resists the bid to return Edward College Peshawar to the mission despite, the PTI leaders promised that the college would be handed over to the Christian community soon.
According to the stakeholders, Edward College Peshawar has been politicized by the Provincial Government and the Governor wants to operate the college under his command.
The Church Missionary Society established the Church Mission College in 1900 in Peshawar as an outgrowth of Edward High School, which had been founded and built in 1855 by the society as the first institution of western-style schooling in the northwest frontier region of what was British India, named after Sir Barbet Edward. From its inception, only foreigners were appointed as principals. It is situated in the beautiful area of Peshawar, with prestigious landscape and plantation around its building and state-of-art architectural designed by the foreigners at the time. The college became well renowned for its repute and devotion to the prime cause of education.