PESHAWAR: Two girl students shared the first position as the Peshawar Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) announced the results of the secondary school certificate (SSC) examinations here on Wednesday.

Faryal Rashid, a student of Peshawar Model Girls High School-II, Dalazak Road Peshawar, and Muzna Alam, a student of New Islamia Public High School, Charsadda, shared the first position by securing 1,089 marks each out of total 1,100.

The second position was shared by three students with 1,088 marks each, including Maryam Bibi, a student of the Peshawar Model Girls High School-II, Dalazak Road Peshawar; and Mashal Subhan and Syed Hammad Ali Shah, the students of New Islamia Public High School, Charsadda.

Similarly, the third position was shared by four girl students, including Zarlakht, Fatima Zarlal and Kanwal Akhtar, all students of New Islamia Public High School, Charsadda, and Dur Marjan, a student of Peshawar Model Girls High School-II, Dalazak Road Peshawar. They all secured 1,087 marks each.

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All these top position holders in the SSC examinations are from the science group.

In the humanities group, the students of Iqra Huffaz Secondary School for Girls, Warsak Road Peshawar, secured all the top three positions. Saira Gul of this school grabbed the first position by obtaining 1,043 marks, Hafiza Umama Syed stood second with 1,030 marks and Syeda Haleema Masaud clinched third position by getting 1,004 marks.

A total of 80,044 candidates appeared in the examinations of which 67,246 qualified their examinations with overall pass percentage of 84.

The results were declared in a ceremony held at the Chief Minister’s House, Peshawar, where Chief Minister Mahmood Khan was the chief guest, according to a statement issued here. Provincial Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Shahram Tarakai, CM’s special assistant on information Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif, administrative secretaries of concerned departments, chairmen of the Peshawar, Swat and Mardan boards and the position-holder students along with their parents and teachers attended the function.

The chief minister on the occasion awarded shields and cash prizes to the position holders of the Peshawar board.

Addressing the ceremony, the chief minister felicitated the position-holder students, their parents, teachers and the school administrations and said that these children were the country’s future and the government was going all out to enable them to compete with the children of other countries.

“Education is the most important sector for our government because the future of our coming generation depends on it,” Mahmood Khan said and added that the provincial government was taking integrated steps to revolutionise education sector.

He said that launch of the second shift in government schools was the most important step of his government, which had a positive impact on the education system.

The chief minister directed the board administrations to take steps for digitisation of services of their respective boards in order to facilitate the students.

He said the matter of giving the status of the mother board to the BISE Peshawar was also under consideration. He said the establishment of mother board would be helpful to create uniformity in the exams system in the province. Shahram Tarakai and others also addressed the ceremony.

Published in Dawn, August 18th, 2022