Teachers call off exam boycott

Published October 11, 2008

QUETTA, Oct 10: The Balochistan Professors and Lecturers Association announced on Friday that college teachers would perform invigilation duty during BA and BSc examinations.

The association had earlier boycotted the examinations beginning on October 11.

Addressing a press conference here, Provincial Education Minister Shafique Khan accepted the BPLA’s demand that college teachers should supervise BA and BSc examinations instead of school teachers.

BPLA president Nawaz Soomro was present on the occasion.

FINED: Sessions Judge Nazir Lango fined 150 Pakistanis for crossing into Iran without legal documents and ordered their release after each one of them deposited Rs8,000.Iranian security forces had caught the Pakistanis who had crossed for entering the border in an attempt to go to Europe via Turkey.

They were handed over to Pakistani officials at the border town of Taftan.

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