Federal board HSSC supplementary examinations
Federal Board of Intermediate HSSC supplementary examination
Islamabad, Sep 26: Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) Supplementary
examination of Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education
(FBISE) would start from October 3. Roll number slips have been
sent to all candidates.In case, the students have not received the roll number up to September
27, they should immediately contact the officers of the board. The telephone numbers
are Controller of Examination (Conduct) 051-9250606, deputy
secretary (One Window Cell) 051-9250612, deputy controller
of examinations (Higher Secondary School Certificate Conduct)
051- 9250620, assistant controller of examinations (HSSC Conduct)
051-9250641 and assistant secretary (One Window Cell) 051-9250651. Daily times
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Thin attendance in govt offices and schools
Rawalpindi: The government offices and schools witnessed thin attendance
on Friday after end of Eidul Fitr holidays. Government employees who had come to their respective
offices expressed the optimism that their colleagues would attend the
offices from Monday. Muhammad Mustafa, a government employee
said, "Actually in our office majority of employees hail from other
cities therefore they availed extra holidays to enjoy sometime with
their families. On the other hand the ratio of attendance
in private institutions was far more than the government institutions. Similarly
attendance of students in schools and colleges was also very thin on
Friday, as most of the students have gone to their hometowns with their
families. Kamran Ahmed, a teacher of a government college said, "Due to the limited number of the students,
it is not possible for us to deliver lectures, as in my class only a
couple of students attended the class with the total strength of more
than 50." He said that majority of students will come after
Monday. On the other hand people who have some sort for
work pending with the government offices are facing problems. Hamid
Khan, a contactor who has been visiting a government office after the
Eidul Fitr holidays, has not been able to get his problem resolved as
the concerned officer is still on leave. He said, "I have applied for
an important tender, but the concerned official is still on leave and
his subordinates told me that I should come back on Monday because the
concerned official will come back after the weekend." The news
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Lack of interest and criminal negligence halted IT centre
Lahore: Provincial Minister for Auqaf Haji Ehsanuddin Qureshi has said
that lack of interest and criminal negligence on the part of former
chief minister Ch. Pervaiz Elahi in the execution of an important and
useful project like IT Centre is an unpardonable crime and he should be
made to pay the sum of one billion rupees which was wasted due to
unnecessary delay.
In a Press statement, the Auqaf Minister said that the project of
construction of IT Centre was started in June 2007 at an estimated cost
of 3.3 billion rupees. He said that services of a Chinese construction
company namely China State Engineering Corporation was acquired for
this purpose, however, after some time due to lack of interest and
irregularities this project came to a halt. He said that while due to
anti-Pakistan policies of former President Pervez Musharraf and the
plundering of his cronies the future of this project became bleak, the
worsening law and order situation and political instability also left a
negative impact on the project and the engineers of Chinese
construction company had to leave. As a result, he said, this project
was delayed and the construction cost increased from Rs.3.3 billion to
Rs.4.3 billion. He said that this project was later given to another
construction company NESPAK and the entire responsibility for delay and
financial loss lies on former chief minister Ch. Pervaiz Elahi and his
ministers and advisors.
The Minister further said that Chief Minister Punjab has sought a
detailed report about IT Centre project within ten days. He said that
the present government will however recover the money wasted due to
delay in the project from Pervaiz Elahi and set a tradition of
accountability so that no politician in future could dare to waste
public money in such a manner. F.P report
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NCJP Concern over education policy
Lahore: The National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP)
has urged the government to review the new National Education Policy to
check infringement of religious freedom guaranteed in articles 20 and
22 of the Constitution. Article 22 specifically barred any religious
education other than the student's own. Expressing their
concern at the new education policy, NCJP Chairperson Archbishop
Lawrence Johan Saldhana and Secretary Peter Jacob said it failed to
address the existing religious biases in the curriculum and imposed
Islamic Studies indirectly on one million non-Muslim students in the
country. They said the NCPJ noted with regret that the
Ministry of Education 'totally' ignored civil society's concerns about
religious and gender biases during formulation of the policy,
especially its chapter 4 dealt with religious education in public
schools. It sought to enhance the scope of the religious education
without a proper evaluation of the existing syllabus. NCJP
office-bearers urged the government to make provisions for the
non-Muslim students to receive lessons according to their faith. "If
the government thinks that public education is not possible without a
compulsory subject of Islamic Studies and Arabic, religious minorities
will be forced to demand separate religious education for Hindus,
Christians, Sikhs and Parsis." They expressed their concern at
the availability of religious text in abundance and in daily use and
said that it needed additional measures to avoid abuse of blasphemy
laws at schools and colleges. They said the subject of ethics
proposed in the new education policy was hardly a choice for non-Muslim
students. The option involved several difficulties, including
unavailability of textbooks. The syllabus had chapters on
various religions, but presented only the Islamic point of view.
Moreover, non-Muslim students risked their grades and isolation from
the rest of the class, they concluded. Dawn
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Kaira visited Punjab university
Lahore: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting
Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira visited Punjab University on Friday and called on
Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran in his office here at New
Campus. The federal minister offered research projects regarding
natural resources of northern areas of the country to the universities.
Various other issues and research projects of Punjab University were
also discussed on the occasion. The federal minister said Punjab
University was his mother institute and he was ready to extend his full
cooperation to the varsity.
Qamar-uz-Zaman is alumnus of Punjab University Department of Philosophy
and his former teacher Chairman Philosophy Department Prof Dr Sajid Ali
and his class-fellow Resident Officer-I Prof Shahid Mahmood Gul were
also present on the occasion. It is noteworthy Javed Hashmi, Raja
Anwar, Ghulam Abbas and other renowned personalities were also alumni
of PU. F.P Report
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