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HYDERABAD: Oppostion Leader in Sindh Assembly Ali Khurshidi has threatened that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) will launch a protest if the Sindh government does not withdraw the proposal to shift the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) from Hyderabad to Jamshoro.
Speaking at a press conference outside the BISE building on Wednesday, he expressed the hope that the PPP would resolve the matter as quickly as possible. He was accompanied by MQM-P parliamentarians Sabir Kaimkhani, Nasir Qureshi and Rashid Khan, district organiser Zafar Siddiqui and party office-bearers.
He said whenever the MQM-P started discussing about government’s ineptness, such issues like the plan to shift the BISE building cropped up.
He said Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah should review his decision to shift the board from Hyderabad to Jamshoro.
Mr Khurshidi said the proposed shifting of the BISE building followed an inquiry into the board affairs. It was surprising that maladministration reached its zenith during the PPP rule and government’s inquiry committee found recourse in shifting of the building outright, he observed.
He alleged that such incompetence and irregularities in the board was obviously not without connivance of the board’s officers backed by the government.
Mr Khurshidi wondered how the Chief Minister’s Inspection Team surpassed the mandate given to it for enquiry into the affairs of BISE and came up with a novice proposal of shifting the board to Jamshoro from its present location where it was established in 1961 or 1962.
He observed that the step was reflective of PPP’s routine bias against the people of Hyderabad. He recalled how PPP’s Pir Mazharul Haq had threatened with dire consequences against the establishment of a university in Hyderabad when such announcement was to be made by the then prime minister (Raja Pervez Ashraf in present Government College University).
He criticised that the PPP’s 18-year rule in Sindh was replete with malpractices, favouritism and nepotism. He said that had it been within PPP’s domain, it would have made corruption part of syllabus because it had already become an industry in Sindh. He said that 70pc school going children were out of schools so far in Sindh and nobody cared.
He said that a parliamentary committee had been formed on the Karachi board’s issues relating to class X results, but now the MQM-P wanted to expand that committee’s terms of reference with inclusion of more members so that affairs of the boards of education could be discussed.
IJT joins chorus against BISE shifting
Islami Jamiat Talba (IJT) Hyderabad Nazim Rafay Ahsan Qazi has announced to start a campaign against the shifting of BISE Hyderabad.
Speaking at a news conference at the local press club on Wednesday, he termed the proposal anti-student. It was reflective of mala fide intention of the government, he observed.
He said shifting of the board on the pretext of old building structure was just a conspiracy against millions of students. He added that he, along with a delegation visited the BISE building but didn’t find it too old and the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) didn’t declare it dangerous as such.
He stated that repair and maintenance could be ensured even without going for its shifting from here.
He informed that the Sindh government had not paid Rs1.50bn towards students’ examinations fees to BISE since 2018.
Published in Dawn, April 10th, 2025
