SUKKUR: Serious allegations of administrative negligence and irregularities have surfaced after the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Sukkur failed to meet Sindh government’s deadline for the announcement of SSC exams results. The delay has affected more than 55,000 students from the Sukkur division who had appeared in the exams.

The Sukkur board was supposed to declare the matriculation results by July 10, as was directed by the Sindh government which had asked all education boards in the province to announce the results by that date.

According to sources, BISE Sukkur had engaged Sukkur IBA University to compute and process the examination results, appointing Mir Samar Abbas Talpur as a consultant to oversee the process.

However, sources claimed, after the consultant reportedly left for a pilgrimage to Iran and other areas, the responsibility for processing the results was allegedly handed over to Syed Samar Abbas Shah, an IBA student working on a daily-wage basis. Several serious errors allegedly emerged during the data processing phase.

Sources further allege that more than 55,000 examination papers per subject were assessed within a period of eight to 10 hours, raising further questions about the quality and accuracy of the marking process.

The board administration also allegedly failed to formally appoint head examiners, a lapse that sources lamented has created serious concerns over effective supervision and transparency in both the assessment and result preparation processes.

It is further claimed that the responsibilities of the controller of examinations are currently being performed by a caretaker official. Allegations of administrative negligence have also been directed at secrecy officer Ghulam Mustafa Pirzado, who reportedly remained in Karachi for 15 to 20 days.

Sources said that Mr Pirzado lacks the necessary experience for his post as secrecy officer, having spent most of his career as an assistant controller of secrecy.

Significant discrepancies were detected during the result computation process, insiders said, adding that a large number of students were reportedly awarded more than 100 marks in various subjects. They claimed these anomalies prompted the board to initiate a fresh assessment and data verification exercise — restricted only to those answer scripts carrying more than 100 marks — contributing to the delay in announcing the results.

Educationists and concerned stakeholders argued that if the allegations behind the delayed announcement prove true, they could seriously undermine confidence in the examination system and affect the academic future of thousands of students across the Sukkur division.

Published in Dawn, July 18th, 2026