Karachi intermediate part-II results 2009

Karachi HSC part-II commerce group results
Karachi, Oct 2: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi will declare the HSC part-II commerce group (regular and private) results at 3pm on Friday.

A ceremony has been arranged in honour of position holders at the conference hall of the board at 3pm, according to a BIEK statement. Dawn

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Controversial promotions at KU stir disapproval
Karachi: The teaching staff of the University of Karachi (KU) are reportedly showing strong disapproval of the alleged promotions of non-teaching staff members without passing through the Selection Board (SB), it has been learnt.

The SB is mandatory for the selection or promotion of both, teaching and non-teaching staff. According to the information obtained, the KU finance director had suggested at a Syndicate meeting on August 24, 2007, that non-teaching staff should be promoted without an SB after considering their period of service. However, a member of the Syndicate, Dr Rafeeq Alam Khan (a professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy) objected to this suggestion, and reminded Syndicate members that all promotions for teaching and non-teaching staff should be decided after the candidates have appeared in the SB. The syndicate had then rejected the finance director's suggestion.

This decision of the Syndicate, however, seems to have lost its effect after two years, because the university has reportedly promoted non-teaching staff members of grades 16 to 19 into the next grade without going through the SB. Teachers at the university are now claiming that promotions have been given to these staff members on "political bases" because the beneficiaries are allegedly associated with a political party which is one of the coalition partners in the Sindh government.

Moreover, some of these promoted officers are matriculates, despite the fact that the minimum qualification for these posts is a graduate degree.

Some promotions were made in a similar way into Grade-17 during the tenure of vice-chancellor Dr Zafar Saied Saify. These staff members, however, were later demoted because they had not passed through the SB.

Dr Rafeeq Alam Khan said that the current promotions were against the rules of the university. "I am aghast at the unilateral decision taken by the university administration. They cannot bypass the Syndicate, which is the proper institution for approving or disapproving such decisions," he said.

However, according to a KU official who sought anonymity, an incentive scheme for non-teaching staff members between grades 1 and 16 was approved by the Syndicate and it was the proposal for staff between grades 17 and 19 which was disapproved. The Registrar's office manipulated the scheme by adding Grade 16 with upper grades to allow them to jump to Grade 17 without passing through the SB, he said.

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CPP faction protests new education policy
Karachi: The rulers of Pakistan are deliberately destroying the education sector and educational institutes to make citizens of the country their 'slaves', members of one faction of the Community Party of Pakistan (CPP) alleged on Thursday.

The activists demanded that the government invest 10 per cent of the GDP on education as well as offer free education till Class 10. The government should implement this at the grass root level, they demanded.

In this regard, the party also staged a demonstration against the Education Policy 2009 at the Karachi Press Club (KPC). CPP Secretary General Khadim Thaeem said that the party had issued a call for a countrywide protest and the demonstration at KPC was a part of it.

CPP Sindh Secretary Rauf said that Pakistan cannot become a successful country until major changes are made in educational policies. The education system should be based in line with modern sciences and values of secularism, to enhance the quality of education, he said. The news

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