January 17, 2008	Thursday	Muharram 07, 1429

MIRPURKHAS, Jan 16: The controller of examination, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Mirpurkhas, has announced the results of the supplementary examinations of the Secondary School Certificate Part-II (Class X) science and general groups for the year 2007.

In the science group, a total of 543 candidates appeared and only one candidate passed with grade A-1, while 22 candidates with grade A, 73 candidates with grade B, 183 with grade C, 130 with grade D and three with grade E. The result of two candidates was withheld.

In the general group, a total of 34 candidates appeared out of which one candidate passed with grade A, nine with grade B, 10 with grade C and six with grade D. The result of one candidate was withheld.

LAWYERS’ PROTEST: Lawyers observed a two-hour token hunger strike in the premises of the district and sessions court here on Tuesday to protest against the detention of judges in the country.

FIRE: Three shops and four pan-cigarette cabins were gutted in the Kot Ghulam Mohammad town late Monday night.

Reports said that the fire broke out in the shops and cabins of Shamsher Ali Kaimkhani, president PPP Kot Ghulam Mohammad, as a result of which all goods were reduced to ashes.

Mr Kaimkhani has lodged a case with the Kot Ghulam Mohammad police against the unidentified suspects.

He claimed that when the fire broke out he informed the fire brigade of the TMA, Kot Ghulam Mohammad, and sought help but due to political reasons a fire brigade was not sent and he sustained a huge loss.