PESHAWAR, May 8: The Khyber Medical College administration has stopped the self-finance scheme students from attending their classes after five months on the pretext that they would be given admission after the final verdict by the Supreme Court in Federally Administrated Tribal Areas students’ quota case.

More than a dozen self-finance scheme students of the KMC talking to Dawn here on Wednesday complained that they were allowed to attend the MBBS classes by the KMC administration after passing the entry test in Oct 2001. But suddenly the administration had stopped them attending their classes on May 3, with a plea that they would be given admission after the final judgment by the SC in Fata students’ quota case.

“Despite taking the Stage-I examination of MBBS, the KMC administration has stopped us to attend the classes,” they alleged.

They said that 111 students had passed the entry test for admission in the KMC on self-finance basis and were allowed to attend their classes from Nov 30, 2001. “We haven’t paid the first profession fee as the KMC administration was insisting that they would receive it later on,” they claimed.

They added that the KMC administration had kept all their original educational certificates and did not return them even after the lapse of seven months. “We cannot get admission to any other institution in the middle of the academic year,” they lamented.

They blamed that there was a litigation on Fata students’ seats, but the KMC administration had intentionally dragged the self-finance scheme students in the case.

They maintained that the long wait of more than seven months had put them and their parents under great psychological stress. They feared that if a decision was not taken in near future they might lose a precious year.

When the acting principal of KMC, Prof Omar Ali, was contacted he expressed ignorance about the students attending the MBBS classes for five months. He, despite working as head of the KMC, said that he had no idea whether any of the students who applied for admission on self-finance basis had taken their examinations or had attended the MBBS classes.

He said, “they are not students of the KMC.” But on a question that who allowed them to attend the MBBS classes for five months, he said that he was acting head of the college and “only the principal of KMC will answer your questions when he reaches the city from the US tour”.