Airing dirty laundry: BIEK examinations controller fires back

The controller was responding to charges made against him by the chairperson a day earlier

KARACHI: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) controller of examinations, Imran Khan Chishti, has accused the chairperson of the board, Muhammad Akhtar Ghori, of involvement in various cases of nepotism, corruption and change of results during paper scrutiny.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday to respond to the charges leveled against him by the chairperson a day earlier, Chishti pointed out that there are seven cases from different faculties where the chairperson by-passed the rules and issued mark sheets to the students without informing him. "I am the issuing authority as I am the controller of examination but he did not inform me and issued new mark sheets to students," he added.

"We work like a family here and these issues should not be taken to such extreme lengths, such as holding press conferences," he said, adding that the chairperson should instead have questioned them in private. "I never wanted to hold a press conference like this but he forced me to come up with proof against his allegations of corruption," he added.



Criticising the chairperson, Chishti said that he does not know how to control a department and make things work. "He was always a public dealing officer and has never been head of the department in past, which is why he does not know how to act like an authority here," he added.

Chisti said that the chairperson also forcefully changed between 30 and 40 scrutiny results by asking the board's staff and assistants to do his bidding. Chishti also presented two assistant controllers of the pre-medical and pre-engineering departments who claimed Ghori asked them to change the results of some cases after scrutiny. They also said that they had informed the controller that they were asked forcefully to manipulate the results.

Speaking about the main reason for the conflict between him and the chairperson, Chisti said that the only reason was corruption in the department.  He also showed a video recording of the chairperson manipulating some results.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 8^th, 2015.