The Jamaat-e-Islami has announced a sit-in in front of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK).
JI Karachi chapter Emir Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman announced at a press conference that the sit-in would be staged on Friday. Students and parents would be the part of the protest demonstration, he added.
Thousands of students failed in intermediate part-I results which the BIEK announced last week.
Rehman accused the authorities of victimising the students, creating crisis. He questioned how the majority of students in interior Sindh passed the same exam when the education standard is far poorer in the areas as compared to the provincial capital, Karachi.
He said the feudal system which the former government of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has established in Sindh is the reason behind the decline in education in the province. The PPP, he said, also created an urban-rural and Sindhi-Urdu-speaking divide in the province.
The Waderas of the PPP who get elected from the interior Sindh provide jobs in their constituencies without any merit, based on the quota system, he claimed. Since the minimum education required for quota system jobs is intermediate or matriculation, the PPP fills all vacancies from interior Sindh, depriving students of Karachi, he claimed.
Hafiz Naeem is contesting the election from Karachi and is a staunch critic of the PPP.
As per the results, 80 per cent of the students have failed in the arts group and 63 per cent in commerce results.
