What a change of times and events. One time it was a British Officer lecture on the Umbeyla Campaign in 1863 during which the British forces suffered 1000 casualties which read as following.
LECTURE.
Friday, April 12th, 1867.
MAJOR GENERAL SIR VINCENT EYRE, K.C.S.I., C.B., R.A.,
the Chair.
THE UMBEYLA. CAMPAIGN.
By Captain FOSBERY, V.C.,1 Her Majesty’s Bengal Staff Corps.
The CHAIRMAN; I have much pleasure in introducing to you Captain Fosbery, who will read us a paper on the Umbeyla
Today Tuesday 11th July 2023, at 10.00 am, I am honoured to be in attendance at the Buner University under the chair of its Vice Chancellor Honourable Dr. Amin Badsha, for a Symposium “Science Today & Tomorrow”, the only difference that made the sun rise today from the West and set in the East.
This Symposium surely is a humble effort towards creating awareness amongst the local population including Environmental Science with notable speakers and experts on the subject remarkably Dr Qasim Jan, an Internationally acclaimed geologist.
Others speakers included Dr. M. Aslam Baig, Dr. Professor Mumtaz Shah, Prof. Dr. Tasawer Hayat and Dr. Zabta Khan Shinwari all great scholars in their respective fiends who travelled from far and wide as their contribution to share knowledge amongst this historic geography that needs education to change its once green mountains that provided them natural camouflage and protection and against the invading British forces that the British forces recorded in their war diaries being one of the impediments that contributed to the Umbeyla fiasco that compelled them take the longer Malakand route .
Today this geography and its inhabitants need modern education to provide them the natural protection against the fast changing world. The only encouraging aspect to be part of this august forum is to observe a sizeable number of girls students aspiring for higher education in extremely conservative society.
One can hope the incumbent Chairman Higher Education Commission Honorable Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, to make history in this otherwise historic geography by helping the make shift university operating in the premises of the Government College to have their own independent premises built as his contribution towards socio economic uplift of this otherwise backward area that the British ensured to be neglected as their reprisal for their resistance against their military misadventure. Long Live Pakistan And Its Resilient Youth 🇵🇰