KOHAT: The students of Cadet College Kohat have clinched all top three positions in the higher secondary school certificate examinations-2018 conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Kohat. The results were announced on Friday.

Cadet Junaid Imran secured 1,014 marks and clinched first position, Danish Sattar got 1,007 marks and obtained second position and Saifullah Khan stood third with 1,004 marks of total 1,100.

Among other position-holders Alam Mohammad Afaq of Cadet College Kohat donated his prize money of Rs50,000 to the fund for dams’ construction, initiated by the chief justice of Supreme Court. Afaq stood third in the pre-engineering group.

Among girls, a student of Government Degree College, Kohat, Aina Hayat, stood first with 870 marks.

Mr Vaqar, controller of the board, said that overall pass percentage stood at 81.66. He said that 41,107 students appeared in the examinations and 33,567 passed it.

BISE chairman Mohammad Raqeeb said on the occasion that a new mechanism had been adopted to bring transparency in checking and to remove the complaints and appeals of rechecking.

MAN KILLED IN BLAST: An elderly man was killed in a bomb blast in Malgin area on Friday. The bomb was allegedly planted by his enemies in the fields of one Abdul Haleem and it went off when he hit it while working.

Confirming the incident, Lachi police said that Haleem was injured in the blast and he later died in KDA hospital. Haleem’s son nominated Zain Mohammad, Muratab Khan, Sher Nawaz and Haji Mohammad in the FIR, saying that they had an old enmity with them. The police have registered the case.

Meanwhile, the district and sessions judge, Kohat, on Friday ordered registration of a case against SHO of city police station for keeping two persons in habeas corpus.

One Gul Ajab Khan of Hafizabad had moved the court against SHO Vaqas Ahmed for keeping him and his nephew Wajid Khan in illegal confinement in the police station for two days in a money dispute.

The police said that the SHO was suspended immediately, but he had not been arrested so far.

COUNCILLORS BOYCOTT: The treasury benches of district council boycotted the session and staged a walkout against the local government for not contacting them for the completion of annual development projects for last three fiscal years prior to the approval of 2018-19 budget.

The district nazim said that the house would not pass the budget for 2018-19 unless the previous projects were completed and money released for them.

Published in Dawn, August 11th, 2018