January 06, 2008	Sunday	Zilhaj 26, 1428

KARACHI, Jan 5: The Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) has failed to publish physics and mathematics books for class X while there has been a dearth of several other textbooks in markets for weeks. Students are appalled by the non-availability of essential books as they are in a crucial stage of their academic career.

Most of these students have to use photocopies of the books but this option is obviously not affordable to thousands of others coming from low-income group.

The textbook publishing process is likely to face more problems now when the Sindh government has decided to retain the old academic session.

United Private Schools Management Front chief Engineer Syed Ali Haider has expressed his astonishment over the STBB’s claim that textbooks had been published timely despite the government’s decision to revert to the old system. Describing the claim as absurd, he called for action against all those who were playing with future of hundreds of thousands of students.—PPI