July 03, 2007	Tuesday	Jamadi-us-Sani 17, 1428

PESHAWAR, July 2: The NWFP Assembly, while showing dissatisfaction over the formation of an inquiry committee against the Peshawar University’s controller of examinations, on Monday unanimously demanded of the governor to constitute an impartial committee comprising MPAs, judges and educationists to fix the responsibility for the roll number scam which affected hundreds of students.

The demand was made in a unanimously-adopted resolution seeking removal of the acting controller of examinations from his post. The resolution also called for making the university’s chancellor a member of the reconstituted inquiry committee.

The resolution, moved by Zubaida Khatoon of the treasury benches, said that since the inquiry committee constituted by the university consisted of its staff, justice and impartiality could not be expected from them. Therefore, the committee should be reconstituted.

Earlier, through a point of order, the mover raised the issue, saying that hundreds of students were still waiting for their roll number slips and they were not satisfied with the inquiry committee constituted for the purpose by the university administration.

One of the committee members had excused himself from taking part in the committee’s deliberations while two others belonged to the same administration which had been blamed for the scam, she argued. Abdul Akbar, a senior parliamentarian, supported the mover.—PPI