Students protest at BSEK over ‘unavailability’ of result

Karachi
Hundreds of affected students along with their parents flooded the office of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) on Friday and staged a protest over the unavailability of matric result, announced by the board a day earlier on Thursday.
They claimed that the result was neither available on the BSEK website, nor was present in the official gazette issues by the matric board.
The BSEK secretary Hoor Bi Mazhar called the Rangers and local police to be able to control the untoward the situation.
However, an official of the matric board said while talking to The News that the results had been uploaded on the website late Thursday night but students hadn’t bothered to check it. He said students began gathering outside the BSEK since 8am.
“In fact most of the protesters were not even students. They just came along to raise hue and cry,” he said. “We had display the result especially for them and once the students saw their mark sheets they left. We had requested students to take a look at the website before coming.”
He said Rangers and police were called to ensure nothing was vandalised at the board office.
The law enforcement agencies were called to make sure that nobody could take law and order into their hands, he mentioned and added that people are requested to visit BSEK official website before coming to the Board Office.
The BSEK officials had announced on Thursday that results of failed students will be uploaded on its website.
The BSEK chairman, Anwar Ahmed Zai, who also holds the additional charge of examination board of Mirpurkhas and the controller examinations, Noman Ahsan, were both out of the city at the time of the protest.