PESHAWAR, Oct 21: Parents of students failing the entry test conducted by the Educational Testing and Evaluation Authority on Tuesday started hunger strike, urging the government to cancel results of the test.

The entry test was conducted on Oct 12.

Two separate hunger strike camps for men and women were established near the Khyber Medical College on the Jamrud Road here.

Expressing their dissatisfaction, they called for holding fresh test under strictest supervision.

Students and their parents maintained that the ETEA was no longer an impartial body, saying it was involved in corruption.

A number of failing candidates expressed their determination to unearth the authority’s wrongdoings.

Many of the unsuccessful students, who belong to remote areas of the NWFP, came to participate in the strike and register their protest in this regard.

Chairman of the Parents’ Action Committee, Shiraz Khan, said that three of the failing students had secured first, second and third positions in the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Bannu.

Likewise, he maintained that some of the students, who were declared failed in the entry test, had secured above 900 marks in FSc exams.

Mr Khan said that they would continue their hunger strike till the cancellation of the entry test results.