Sindh Assembly forms body to probe controversial HSSC exam results

The Sindh Assembly on Monday formed a committee comprising lawmakers to probe into the recently declared controversial results of Higher Secondary School Certificate (Intermediate-level) Examinations for Karachi-based students.

Opposition legislators belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan resorted to protest in the house last week at the start of the new session of the assembly when they were denied the opportunity by the chair to raise the issue of unsatisfactory HSSC exam results.

The newly formed committee was formed to thoroughly scrutinise all the affairs related to the HSSC exam results. Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah will head the probe committee.

Speaking on the issue, Sindh Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar assured the concerned legislators that there would be no compromise on the academic future of the students.

He further assured the house that very soon eligible persons would be appointed as chairmen to the public sector examination boards in Sindh.

Lanjar told the MPAs that the newly formed probe committee would listen to the reservations of concerned students and also meet the administration of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi.

The probe committee will comprise MPAs Sadia Javed, Shabbir Ahmed, Taha Ahmed, and Abdul Waseem. Meanwhile, Parliamentary Secretary of the Sindh Cooperation Department, Khairunnisa Mughal, told the house during the question hour that the provincial government carried out the registration of the cooperative housing societies and also ensured their timely polls.

She said that the Sindh government also appointed an inquiry officer to look into the complaints of irregularities in the affairs of the cooperative housing societies. Khairunnisa Mughal further said that large-scale cases of irregularities concerning the functioning of the cooperative societies were referred to the Anti-Corruption Establishment of the provincial government.

She assured the lawmakers that the government took all the necessary measures to maintain a system of checks and balances on the functioning of the cooperative housing societies to ensure transparency and accountability in their affairs.

The parliamentary secretary said that there was a long list of cooperative housing societies successfully functioning in the province and Scheme 33 of the KDA was one such shining example.