JI sets 48-hour deadline for govt to change ‘controversial’ committee on Inter exams

A large number of students affected by controversial exam results issued by the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi held a big protest demonstration outside the BIEK offices on Thursday.

The participants of the protest carried placards and banners, chanted slogans against injustice and dubbed it educational apartheid on part of the Pakistan Peoples Party government against Karachiites. 

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi emir Monem Zafar addressed the protesters. He said that the Sindh chief minister and his team ambushed the rights of Karachi students.

He said that the ongoing educational apartheid in Karachi was totally unacceptable. The students who had cleared the matriculation exams with more than 80 percent marks were either showed absentee in one paper, or marked as fail or hardly passed, he said.

The JI leader further said that last year the same type of mismanagement was showed and a deputy controller examination was charge-sheeted. The deputy controller didn't appear before the then committee and was declared absconder, he said, adding that later the PPP government in Sindh promoted her to the post of controller examination.

The PPP has not spared universities, nor educational boards or institutions, he said, adding that the students in Karachi were also exploited in the name of MDCAT. He said that the committee constituted to resolve the issues of first year intermediate exams should have comprised educationists belonging to various universities and stakeholders of the city. However, he maintained, the 12-member committee is comprised of education department employees, putting a question mark on the entire process. He issued a 48-hour deadline to change the committee and added that the JI, in consultations with the affected students, will issue the future course of action if the committee is not rectified in the next two days. He said the JI will consider options, including besieging the Chief Minister House and/or the Governor House, if the issue is not addressed positively.