KARACHI:
Sarfraz Shah, whose killers received the death penalty and life imprisonment on Friday, made it to C division in the 2011 Matriculation exams, his parents have just learnt.
The young man, who was shot dead by a Rangers jawan on June 8 in one of the country’s most high-profile extra judicial killing cases, was a general group private candidate in high school. His roll number was 610780 and he sat both parts of the exams at the same time. He scored 25 marks in Sindhi, 73 in Islamic Studies, 70 in Civics, 33 in Math, 54 in General Science, 46 in Islamiat, 40 in Pakistan Studies, 67 in English and 33 marks in Urdu. This brought him a total of 441 out of 850 marks or a C division. He went to a Government Boys Secondary School in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 14th, 2011.
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@Ashok: most probably he we went to an "english medium" school, where Islamiyat becomes Islamic Studies...
What the rangers did was wrong and the sentences given are quite justified. Having said that do keep in mind Sarfaraz Shah was a thief. A petty thief using a toy gun to rob people. Had he lived he would have eventually either ended up in jail, joined a gang and moved on to higher levels of crime and there remains the slight chance that he would have straightened himself out. My guess is Sarfaraz Shah had come into bad company and started ciommitting robberies. His brother is a journalist and he appears to come froma respectable family who were probably not aware of what he was up to.
This is a failure of our society that our youth are denied constructive after school activities and end up roaming about aimlessly and chances of getting infkluenced by the wrong company are high.
And that somehow justifies the killing?
Similarly all MQM and ANP terrorists should be hanged in front of public
@Nadeem Ahmed: O yes Mr. Nadeem (Hitler), let's shoot all C graders and fake gun holders....They don't deserve to live....
That sob was none better than c-class in whatever he did. Good thing that the Rangers gave him an A-class journey to that A-class destination reserved for all such godamn c-classers.
What does Tribune want to prove? Is this a news to share even?
Does anyone care?
He's dead and gone - does it look like I wanna know what he scored in his Matric exams or what he had for food a night before he was shot?
Stop portraying the kid as a hero - he's nothing but one of the robbers we hear about and abuse on a daily basis.
You wonder what has happened to the Pakistani public, but the media is one of the main causes. The 19-year-old is found with a toy gun in a public park, which implies nothing other than the fact that he was using the 'weapon' to terrorise people. And then you look at the attention he's getting from the media. What a shame.
Whats the difference between Islamic studies and Islamiyat? Please don't tell me that one is taught by mullahs!
40 in Pakistan Studies... Must have written in the paper that Pakistan is a country where I steal mobile phones. Its the Islamic republic where I can harass woman in the park with my toy gun.
dude glad you are dead
What a brilliant academic career cut short by cold blooded murderers. He was learning basics of profession with use of fake guns robbing middle class families. With C grade he would have got admission in a reputable college where he could have learned further techniques to rob families of higher society. A grat talent wasted.
Sarfaraz Shah was killed by Rangers personnel in broad day light in Karachi.
Had he lived in this world, he would have studied further and may have become an honourable citizen of Pakistan.
Since Mr. Asif Ali Zardari became the President of Pakistan no condemned prison has been hanged till death.
I am optimistic that would be the first one during Mr. Zardari’s regime who would be sent to gallows. This would make an example for Police as well as for all law enforcing personnel to remain within their limits and not to kill the innocent people in Pakistan on one pretext or the other.
Hundreds of people in Pakistan have been killed in fake Police encounters. Now the time has come when the Rangers man who shot dead Sarfaraz Shah should be hanged till death.
What is the difference between 'Islamic studies' and 'Islamiat'?