June 21, 2008	Saturday	Jamadi-us-Sani 16, 1429

KARACHI, June 20: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has rescheduled all those papers which were to be held on Saturday.

According to a spokesman for the board, since June 21 has been declared a provincial holiday, the HSC Humanities Group papers scheduled for the day will now be held on July 2.

He said that the timings and venue of the papers would remain unchanged.

Courts, varsities closed

All the offices, educational institutions, autonomous bodies, cooperative and local councils under the administrative control of the Sindh government shall remain closed on Saturday on account of the public holiday declared to observe the birth anniversary of the slain former prime minister and the chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party, Benazir Bhutto, agencies add.

According to the separate notifications issued by different institutions on Friday, the High Court of Sindh, its bench in Sukkur, circuit courts in Hyderabad and Larkana as well as district and subordinate courts in the province, besides the University of Karachi, NED University of Engineering and Technology and Dow University of Health Sciences will remain closed on June 21 on account of the birth anniversary of the slain former prime minister.

The Karachi University registrar stated that all the examinations scheduled for the day had been postponed, while a new date would be announced later.

The DUHS cancelled all the examinations scheduled for June 21 and announced that they would be conducted on June 22.

The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology also postponed the papers of semester exams scheduled for the day.

However, the remaining papers will be held as per schedule.