NED VC tasked to probe controversial Inter-I results

A committee comprising assembly members has handed over the inquiry of controversial passing ratio in the exams of intermediate first year of Inter Board, Karachi, to NED Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr Sarosh Lodi.

Dr Lodi will investigate the matter and submit a report to the assembly committee by February 12. IBA Karachi Director Dr Akbar Zaidi, Secretary Sindh HEC Moin Siddiqui and Controller NED are the members of the committee and a notification in this regard will be issued shortly.

It may be recalled that a similar matter had come to the light in Sindh last year during the caretaker government. Caretaker Chief Minister Justice (retd) Maqbool Baqir had handed over the inquiry to the committee comprising the above members. On the recommendation of the committee, students who failed in intermediate part one, were given grace marks and passed. However, this time too, the inquiry has been handed over to the said committee under the convenorship of Dr Sarosh Lodhi.

It was decided in a meeting of the committee with Provincial Education Minister Sardar Shah in the chair on Wednesday.

In the meeting, Chairman Intermediate Board Professor Sharaf Ali Shah informed that the board's own committee comprising college professors has assessed several thousand copies, but no major or notable errors were found in the results.

In addition, a notification issued in this regard has said that objections to the results will be checked through a third-party mechanism. A fact-check committee is being established in this regard.

Committee members Sadia Javed, Muhammad Yousuf Baloch, Ijaz Khan, Abdul Waseem Muhammad Farooq and others attended the meeting, while members of provincial assembly Ali Khursheedi, Syeda Marvi Rashdi, Adil Aksari, Dr Sikandar Shoro, Abdul Basit and others attended the meeting.