KOHAT: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Kohat, has announced to introduce computerised checking of papers from July 10 for ensuring mistake-free results.

A statement issued here on Wednesday said the new system named optical marks reorganisation (OMR) could check 100,000 papers in 24 hours. The decision had been made on the directives of the provincial government which asked the boards to introduce the system by due date otherwise action would be taken against the board officials.

The provincial education minister has also issued orders that the board should use the vacant land for sports activities and create healthy environment for the students. He said that the PTI-government believed in strengthening of institutions instead of individuals.

He told the board officials that past mistakes of investing in individuals were responsible for instability and backwardness and that rehabilitation of institutions was being made for lacing them with modern technology.

ARRESTED: Police arrested 29 suspects, mostly Afghan refugees from Ublan camp and surrounding areas, in a special operation on Wednesday.

During house-to-house search two rifles, one repeater of 12-bore and five pistols were also recovered. The suspects were taken to the lock-up of the cantonment police station. The police have registered cases against those who possessed illegal weapons.

Meanwhile, the police contacted the court for exhuming the body of a girl who was killed in a grenade attack and secretly buried by the relatives on Wednesday.

The police said that a girl, Amna Bibi, was killed when unidentified men hurled a hand grenade at the house of one Afzal Hussain in Doctor Banda. The parents and relatives of the deceased buried her without informing the police about the incident.

However, the police filed an application in a court of law for conducting post-mortem of the girl.

Published in Dawn, June 9th, 2016