Day: July 16, 2009

NAWABSHAH: A teenaged boy was shot dead on Monday in village Achar Jamali near Sakrand.

Reports said rivals had killed Abdul Sattar Jamali, 16, over a matrimonial dispute and fled. Ghulam Sarwar Jamali, brother of the victim, has lodged an FIR at Sakrand police station against six persons: Khan Mohammed, Mashooq Ali, Noor Ahmed, Wahid Bux, Ghulam Rasool and Ghulam Farooq Jamali.
Source: Dawn
Date:7/15/2009

By Azizullah Sharif

KARACHI: Girls outclassed boys in the Secondary School Certificate (Science) annual examinations (2009) by securing 8,257 A-1 grades as compared to 4,800 A-Is obtained by boys, though 16,718 more boys than girls sat the exams.

In all, 115,722 candidates (66,220 boys and 49,502 girls) appeared in the exam and of them, 81,066 (43,898 boys and 37,168 girls) were declared passed in different grades.

The results declared on Wednesday by the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) showed that the overall pass percentage dropped this year by 6.94 as it stood at 70.05 percentage points than last year’s 76.99.

According to the statistics, the pass percentage of girl students was 75.08 and those of boys 66.29.

The girls also maintained their supremacy in the merit list of the examination as they clinched all the first three positions, although the second position was shared by a boy and a girl.

Sobia Azfer, daughter of Syed Azfer Ahmed (Roll No 501960), topped the examination by securing 798 of the 850 marks (93.88 per cent). She belonged to the Programmer Secondary School, Sector 11-B, North Karachi.

The second position was shared by Shahzaib Khan, son of Shariq Nadeem (Roll No 418307), and Komal Wakeel, daughter of Abdul Wakeel (Roll No 505983), as both of them got 787 marks (92.59pc). They belonged to the SM Public Academy Campus-5 (Secondary), Gulistan-i-Jauhar and the Little Folks School, North Nazimabad Block F, respectively.

The third position was bagged by Afshar Qadri, daughter of Zafar Ahmed Qadri (Roll No 534769). She secured 786 marks (92.47 pc) and belonged to the BMB Toddlers Girls Secondary School, Frere Road.

Of the total 81,066 successful candidates, 13,057 candidates (4,800 — 7.25pc boys and 8,257 — 16.68pc girls) secured A-1 grade; 23,309 candidates — 20.14pc (1,1627 — 17.56pc boys and 1,1682 — 23.60pc girls) obtained A grade; 23,272 — 20.11pc (1,3261 — 20.03pc boys and 10,011 — 20.22pc girls) secured B grade; 16,424 — 14.19pc (10,392 — 15.69pc boys and 6,032 — 12.19pc girls) got C grade; 4,909 — 4.24pc (3,732 — 5.64pc boys and 1,177 – 2.38pc girls) secured D grade while 95 candidates — 0.08pc (86 — 0.13pc boys and nine — 0.02pc girls) were placed in E grade.

Deadline met

The BSEK by declaring the results on July 15 met the deadline fixed by the steering committee of the Sindh education department for announcing the results of SSC annual examinations. Last year’s examination results of the same group were announced on July 31, 2008.
Source: Dawn
Date:7/16/2009

KARACHI: Two witnesses identified as many suspected killers of a three-year-old girl as the men involved in the crime during an identification parade conducted by a judicial magistrate on Wednesday.

The identification parade was conducted by Judicial Magistrate (east) Malik Mohammad Akhtar and the two witnesses, Mohammad Yasin and Mugheer Ahmed, identified the suspects, traffic police constables Bashir Ahmed and Noor Mohammad.

Three-year-old Sana was kidnapped on July 3 when she was playing with her friends near her house in Korangi. Later, the suspects had killed her and allegedly dumped the body in a manhole near the FTC building.

The investigation officer of the case, Sub-inspector Muhammad Irshad, brought the two witnesses before the magistrate, who also recorded their statements under Section 164 of the criminal procedure code.

Witness Yasin, a neighbour, said that he had last seen three-year-old Sana along with the two suspects in his street and later he came to know through some area people that the girl was missing for several hours.

The second witness, Mugheer, a resident of the same neighbourhood, told the magistrate that on July 3 he saw the two suspects carrying a bag, from which the girl’s body was recovered later, when he was returning home from a nearby mosque after Friday prayers.

He said that he had reason to believe that the bag contained the body of the girl.

According to the prosecution, traffic police constables Bashir Ahmed and Noor Mohammad were arrested on July 5 and the deceased’s body was recovered from a manhole near the FTC building on a lead given by them.

Later, a case (FIR 331/2009) was registered against the suspects under Sections 364 (kidnapping in order to murder), 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with the recently-inserted Section 6 (b) punishable under Section 7 of the Anti-terrorism Act of 1997 on the complaint of the victim’s uncle, Abdul Hashim, at the Zaman Town police station.

The two suspects are at present in police remand till July 17 since the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Karachi had extended their remand under the anti-terror law.
Source: Dawn
Date:7/16/2009

By Mansoor Malik

LAHORE: The Punjab University’s BA/BSc annual examination results on Wednesday showed 27.73 pass percentage — a 3.06 per cent rise from last year’s 24.67 per cent.

According to the preamble to the result notification, as many as 183,350 candidates appeared for the BA/BSc annual examinations, of whom 50,849 candidates were declared successful.

Girls kept the perception of being more studious alive by clinching the six top positions; none of them belonged to any public-sector college in Punjab. The overall gender-wise pass percentage also showed that the girls outshone boys with 32.38 per cent. The boys’ pass percentage remained 19.02.

In BA examinations, girls showed 30.95 pass percentage, while boys’ pass percentage stood at 18.3. Similarly, in BSc examination, boys showed 23.85 pass percentage, while the girls came up with almost double pass percentage, that is, 45.59.

The BA/BSc annual examination results were declared by PU Controller of Examinations Zahid Karim Khan at a prize-distribution ceremony in the Faisal Auditorium on Wednesday. None of the public- or private-sector institutions in Lahore could bag any top position.

In the humanities group (BA), all the three top position holders had appeared as private candidates. Umme Habiba, an external candidate from Lahore district, clinched first position with 673 marks out of 800. She also topped in the English language paper. Asia Ashraf, an external candidate from Sheikhupura district, bagged second position with 650 marks. Saira Laique, an external candidate from Lahore, stood third by scoring 646.

In science group (BSc), Amna Riaz of the Punjab College for Women, Civil Lines, Gujranwala, bagged first position by scoring 696. Daniah Tahir of the Federal Government College for Women, F-7/2, Islamabad, secured second position with 663 marks. While Musavarah Sarwar clinched third position, scoring 656.

According to the breakdown of regular and private candidates, the notification says 71,399 regular candidates appeared for the examination. Of them 26,734 candidates were declared successful showing a pass percentage of 37.44. As many as 111,951 private candidates took the examination, 24,115 being successful (21.54pc).

As for the overall consolidated division analysis in BA, as many as 1,696 boys and 7,337 girls secured first division, 7,663 boys and 24,709 girls bagged second division and 721 boys and 1,247 girls got third division.

In BSc, some 208 boys and 1,245 girls bagged first division, 1,227 boys and 2,984 girls secured second division and 292 boys and 280 girls got third division.

The controller of examinations said the examination centre superintendents, examiners and university monitoring teams reported cases of alleged use of unfair means against 687 candidates. He said all these cases were decided before the declaration of results, except 51 cases.

The chief minister lauded the girls who clinched the top positions and at the same time expressed grave concern that no boy was able to compete with the girls. In a lighter vein, he said, there was a possibility that the next chief minister might be a woman.

The chief minister said he would invite the top position holders of all universities to a special ceremony. He said the Punjab government would bear the financial burden if any of the position holders would get admission to MA/MSc in Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge or any other varsity of such repute.

He announced cash prizes of Rs200,000 for each first position holder, Rs150,000 for each second position holder and Rs100,000 for each third position holder. While, the PU presented cash prizes of Rs100,000, Rs75,000 and Rs65,000 for each first, second and third position holder.

The CM also announced a bonus of one-month salary for all the examination department officials. If the PU would succeed in enhancing PhD faculty members ratio from 35 to 100 per cent in the next five years, Mr Sharif said the government would provide Rs100 million annually to the university.

Later, CM Shahbaz Sharif presented merit certificates and cash prizes to the position holders.
Source: Dawn
Date:7/16/2009

ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a workshop on Wednesday condemned violence against women and said it not only affected their physical lives but also emotional, economic and social lives.

They were speaking at the workshop on gender justice and protection, organised by the UNDP and Department for International Development (DFID), says a press release.

UNDP Deputy Director Mikiko Tanaka said women in Pakistan were victims of various types of violence including rape, gang-rape, honour killing, trafficking of women, burning, acid attacks denial of inheritance rights, giving of girls as compensation and social and economic discrimination.
Source: Dawn
Date:7/16/2009