Teachers’ body seeks removal of BISE Peshawar chairman

PESHAWAR: The All Teachers Coordination Council, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday asked the government to remove the chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Peshawar.

Speaking at a news conference here, the council’s chairman Islamuddin, provincial president Wahab Mansoori, general secretary Muzammil Turabi, Islam Tariq, Roidad Muhammad, Ahmad Jan Muhammadzai, Muhammad Sher Khan, Rafiullah, Musanif Shah, Sikandar Khan, Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Kalim Mahsud and Abdul Samad alleged that BISE Chairman Muhammad Shafi Afridi insulted the superintendent and invigilators without any reason during his visit to an examination hall in Hayatabad.

They claimed the superintendent was insulted in front of the students for not allowing the use of unfair means.They alleged that some BISE officials were not happy with the examination staff in question for not allowing the use of unfair means at the private educational institution and this annoyed the chairman.

The teachers said that all the examination staff, including the superintendent, had announced boycott of duty as a mark of protest and demanded inquiry into the incident.They said that Shafi Afridi had been chairman BISE for five years in violation of rules.

“It is astonishing that the chairman was given extension after expiry of his two- year term and spent another year after completion of the second term despite the fact he was a grade 19 officer and the post was of grade 20,” the council’s chairman Islamuddin argued.  He demanded immediate removal of the BISE chairman and an inquiry into his misbehavior with a senior teacher and other staff.