Sindh govt on mission to ruin academic future of Karachi’s students, alleges Sattar

The Sindh government has been on a mission to ruin the academic future of the children from urban parts of the province.

Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Dr Farooq Sattar made this allegation while addressing a press conference on Saturday.

The MQM-P leader said the results of Karachi’s students in matriculation and Intermediate examinations were deliberately downgraded, whereas, the results of students taking examinations conducted by educational boards in the rest of Sindh were being unduly upgraded.

Dr Sattar said there was no cause for Karachi’s students who had shown exceptional academic performance in their schooling up to grade 8 failing the matriculation and higher secondary school certificate examinations.

He alleged that incompetent officials of the educational boards in Sindh were involved in a conspiracy to ruin the academic career of the students from urban areas of the province.

The MQM-P leader was of the view that the Sindh chief minister should morally step down while taking responsibility for lowering the educational standards available for Karachi’s students.

He lamented that the Sindh government did not have competent officials to manage the affairs of the examination boards.

Dr Sattar deplored that politics had become rife in the entire public education system in Sindh. The results of the candidates who appeared in the admission test for the NED University of Engineering & Technology and medical colleges proved the academic competence of Karachi’s students, said the MQM-P leader.

Up to 67 per cent of the Karachi-based students who took the HSSC exams failed the exams, the MQM-P leader said, adding that on the contrary, 70 per cent of the students who took the exams conducted by the educational boards in the rest of Sindh passed the exams.

He said Karachi's students were declared to have failed the exams to extort fees from their concerned parents for scrutiny of the answer scripts and re-examinations.

He alleged the principle of merit was being trampled upon to let the students from rural Sindh get admission to the prestigious universities in cities of the province.