PESHAWAR, Oct 3: Entry test for medical colleges of the NWFP is being held on Tuesday under strict security measures at Army Stadium in Peshawar and Ayub Medical College in Abbottabad.

Secretary, Schools and Literacy, Amjad Shahid Afridi, who has been assigned the additional charge of executive director of the Educational Testing and Evaluation Authority (ETEA) has said that to ensure strict security during the test, FC personnel will be deployed inside the Army Stadium while police will be deployed outdoors. He said gates of the examination centre would be opened at 6.30am for entry of the students and closed down at 7.30am and the three-hour test would be started at 8.30 or 9am.

According to him, some 8,000 students are expected to appear in the test in Peshawar and over 1,700 in Abbottabad.

Mr Afridi expressed his satisfaction over the measures taken for the conduction of the test in a transparent manner. But, students were of the view that if a man could leak paper from the most sensitive computerized body –- the ETEA — he could also use his influence at other stages.—PPI