SWABI: The students on Tuesday blasted the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Mardan, over the prolonged delay in announcement of the higher secondary school certificate examination results.

Talking to Dawn here, they said the examinations were held in June but the board was yet to declare results despite lapse of almost three months, stressing them out.

The students said they had already deposited the first semester and hostel fees in universities in anticipation that the results would be announced sooner than later.

However, they feared the varsities would not accept their admissions and would also not refund the fees if they failed to acquire the required marks. They said the mandatory period of submitting the results within one month after fee submission had already passed.

A man requesting anonymity said after qualifying the entry test, his son had deposited Rs400,000 in the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology.

“Now if my son doesn’t get 60 per cent marks in mathametics or physics he would be expelled from the varsity, and his fee won’t be refunded because the mandatory one-month period before a varsity could refund the amount has already passed.”

Mohammad Zalan, who appeared in grade 12 examination in the Mardan board, said they had been eagerly waiting for the result. He said delay in results had perturbed him.

Shah Faisal, another student, said delay in results spoke volumes about the efficiency of the education board.

MAN KILLED: A man was killed inside his house in Naku Banda area of Razaar tehsil on Tuesday, the police said.

Yar Hussain police station officials said widow of the deceased, Islam Ghani got registered an FIR, stating when she returned home, she found her husband lying in a pool of blood.

She said her 10-year-old son, Atif Khan told her that he saw Mukhtiar Khan alias Babu running away from their home after allegedly murdering his father.

Published in Dawn, September 27th, 2023