ISLAMABAD, June 5: The Aga Khan University Examination Board (AKU-EB) has allowed affiliation to only 93 out of 200 private schools which had applied to it for the SSC examination 2007. This was stated by Federal Minister for Education Lt-Gen (retired) Javed Ashraf Qazi while talking to a delegation of students of private schools from Islamabad.

The minister told the students that the AKU-EB did not have the capacity to affiliate more schools as its system aimed to offer qualitative and analytical exam system even to the non- elite private schools. He said the reason for the establishment of the AKU-EB was to provide quality and worldwide-accepted system of examination to the students who could not afford the costly Cambridge exams.

The minister said it was an irony that a religious party instead of appreciating the government’s endeavours to provide quality and affordable examination system to the middle-class students had started a campaign to confuse the public by framing self-made and false allegations against the government and the AKU-EB.