HYDERABAD, Oct 30: Test for admission to the Centre of Excellence in Arts and Design (CEAD) would be held simultaneously on Nov 8 at 9am in all the provincial capitals of the country, according to an announcement issued on Thursday.

Test of the candidates of Sindh would be held at the Jamshoro centre, in the Punjab the test would be held at Al-Hamra Art Council, Lahore, in the NWFP at Nishtar Council of Arts, Peshawar, and in Balochistan at the Cultural Institute, Quetta.

Candidates of the Punjab, the NWFP, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas living in Sindh would appear in the test at the Jamshoro centre.

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