KARACHI, June 2: The intermediate (HSC) annual examinations for regular and private candidates of humanities group will begin from June 15, it was learnt officially. An officer of the Board of Intermediate Education said that as many as 63,000 candidates had been registered for the examinations in question.

POSTPONED PAPERS: The BIEK on Thursday notified that the papers, Chemistry-I of Pre-Engineering and Pre-Medical groups, Chemistry of Home Economics (both in the morning shift), and Principles of Commerce Paper-I (afternoon shift), which were scheduled to be held on May 31 and could not be held accordingly, in view of the prevailing law and order conditions in the city, would now be held on June 9 in the shifts and centres given earlier.

The postponed papers of June 1, Physics-II of Pre-Medical and Pre-Engineering and Biology and Bacteriology of Home Economics (both in the morning shift), will now be held on June 10. All the rest of the papers will be conducted according to the schedule said the notification.

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