KARACHI, Sept 17: Voting for election of one school head to the Board of Secondary Education, Karachi, could not be completed on Saturday as a section of candidates and their supporters disrupted the process halfway.
A source in the board said that the polling started peacefully at 10am, but later some of the school heads raised objection on the voters’ list and urged the board authorities to postpone the polling till the time fresh and updated lists were issued by the board.
However, under some resolution the polling continued and it was around 2.15pm that a group of school heads and their supporters managed to enter the polling booth set up within the board’s premises and snatched the ballot papers from the staff concerned and ran away with the ballot box.
A BSE official not identifying the intruders said that it was a mob that entered and disrupted the polling process. The report about the unpleasant development has been submitted to the chairman of the board for necessary action, added the official saying that the elections had been postponed for an indefinite period.
In the meantime, a notification of BSE issued by Secretary Prof Asif Pasha Siddiqui said that the chairman, while exercising powers conferred upon him under the board’s calendar and the related ordinance had declared the entire process of polling of election 2006 which was held on September 16 in the board as “null and void”. An election in the school heads constituency is held after every two years.
