PESHAWAR, Dec 17: The Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar, on Monday declared the results of the MBBS and BDS part-1 examinations for the academic year 2007.

The university, the first one of its kind in the NWFP, announced that of the 564 students who took the MBBS examinations 381 had been declared successful, according to a press release issued here on Monday.

The press release said 249 students of the Khyber Medical College (KMC), Peshawar, 201 candidates of the Ayub Medical College (AMC), Abbottabad, 59 students of the Saidu Medical College, Swat, and 55 students of the Gomal Medical College, Dera Ismail Khan, took the MBBS part-1 examinations, held in November.

The pass percentage for MBBS part-1 was 68 per cent and 56 per cent for the BDS examinations.

The number of candidates from the Khyber College of Dentistry (KCD), Peshawar, who took the examination was 49. Twenty-five candidates from the AMC’s dental section also sat the examination, the press release said.

According to the results declared by the university, Amira Qadeer obtained 383 marks and stood first. Mujahida Bibi got 380 marks and clinched the second position and Yusra Nabi Khattak got 372 out of a total of 525 and stood third in the BDS first part examination.

Dr Mohammad Daud Khan, vice-chancellor of the KMU, was the chief guest of the ceremony at which the results were declared.