Result tampering issue: Anti-corruption team ends raid on Karachi Inter Board

KARACHI: The Anti-corruption Department officials, who earlier raided the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi over result tampering, on Friday ended their three-day operation in the building.

According to sources, one employ of the Inter Board office was arrested and some documents were also confiscated in the raid.

An Anti-corruption court today ordered to send the under custody board office official, Adil Anwar, to jail on judicial remand.

The court was displeased over delay in presenting the accused before it.

The court issued a show-cause notice to investigation officer Jamil Ahmed over the matter.

“The suspect was arrested on August 9 but presented in the court on August 11,” the anti-corruption court remarked.

The sources informed that the anti-corruption team can conduct another raid in the board office in order to finalise a decision.

The move had also led to a protest by its employees on Thursday, who had stopped work and locked up offices.

"We have, so far, found 102 cases in which the results were tampered, along with evidences," Ghulam Qadir Thebo, chairman of Anti-Corruption Department had said.

The administration of the Inter Board had rejected the allegations as baseless.

The raid, however, jeopardized the future of thousands of students of the pre-medical group, whose results might possibly be delayed in the wake of investigations.

 

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Is your water bottle dirtier than the toilet?

With most single use bottles harmful to the environment, conscious individuals opt for a reusable one instead.

Researchers in the US have discovered those bottles could potentially make you sick.

The discovery came after health experts swabbed 3 bottles each of the four types of reusable bottles people most commonly used; the slide-top, the squeeze-top, the screw-top and the straw-top.

Swabs from each bottle, used by an athlete for one week without being washed, were sent to a renowned lab specializing in the analysis of air and surface samples for bacteria.

The results were shocking. Certain types had more than 300,000 colony-forming units per square centimeter (CFU/sq cm).

To put things in perspective, the average toilet seat has about 27 CFU/sq cm.  Yes, let that sink in for a minute, but don?t be quick to boycott reusable bottles altogether just yet.

Bacteria are present all around us, some are harmless some are beneficial while certain others can make you fall sick.

While reusable bottles have high presence of potentially harmful bacteria, instead of tossing the reusable water bottle, maybe its time to start giving that bottle a hot wash everyday instead of letting it sit half full in your gym bag or your child's school bag.

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Result tampering issue: Anti-corruption team ends raid on Karachi Inter Board

KARACHI: The Anti-corruption Department officials, who earlier raided the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi over result tampering, on Friday ended their three-day operation in the building.

According to sources, one employ of the Inter Board office was arrested and some documents were also confiscated in the raid.

An Anti-corruption court today ordered to send the under custody board office official, Adil Anwar, to jail on judicial remand.

The court was displeased over delay in presenting the accused before it.

The court issued a show-cause notice to investigation officer Jamil Ahmed over the matter.

?The suspect was arrested on August 9 but presented in the court on August 11,? the anti-corruption court remarked.

The sources informed that the anti-corruption team can conduct another raid in the board office in order to finalise a decision.

The move had also led to a protest by its employees on Thursday, who had stopped work and locked up offices.

"We have, so far, found 102 cases in which the results were tampered, along with evidences," Ghulam Qadir Thebo, chairman of Anti-Corruption Department had said.

The administration of the Inter Board had rejected the allegations as baseless.

The raid, however, jeopardized the future of thousands of students of the pre-medical group, whose results might possibly be delayed in the wake of investigations.

 

Read More

Is your water bottle dirtier than the toilet?

With most single use bottles harmful to the environment, conscious individuals opt for a reusable one instead.

Researchers in the US have discovered those bottles could potentially make you sick.

The discovery came after health experts swabbed 3 bottles each of the four types of reusable bottles people most commonly used; the slide-top, the squeeze-top, the screw-top and the straw-top.

Swabs from each bottle, used by an athlete for one week without being washed, were sent to a renowned lab specializing in the analysis of air and surface samples for bacteria.

The results were shocking. Certain types had more than 300,000 colony-forming units per square centimeter (CFU/sq cm).

To put things in perspective, the average toilet seat has about 27 CFU/sq cm.  Yes, let that sink in for a minute, but don?t be quick to boycott reusable bottles altogether just yet.

Bacteria are present all around us, some are harmless some are beneficial while certain others can make you fall sick.

While reusable bottles have high presence of potentially harmful bacteria, instead of tossing the reusable water bottle, maybe its time to start giving that bottle a hot wash everyday instead of letting it sit half full in your gym bag or your child's school bag.

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Six terrorists arrested in combing operation near Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: Intelligence agencies conducted a combing operation on Friday at Gujar Khan and Kallar Syedan.

According to a statement by the Inter-service Public Relations (ISPR) six terrorists including two commanders have been arrested.

Weapons and IEDs were recovered from them.

Combing operations will be conducted till terrorists are arrested and their hideouts are eliminated, the ISPR said.

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Mobile services suspended in Indian occupied Kashmir

SRINAGAR: Indian authorities suspended all mobile telephony services except postpaid connections of state-run BSNL citing possible protests after Friday prayers.

?Mobile telephony services have been snapped in the entire Valley. Only postpaid connections of BSNL are working,? a police official said, as reported by the Indian Express.

Services were suspended at midnight.

The suspension comes after Kashmiris protests against Indian atrocities in the valley after Friday prayers last week. The people were killed and several hundred were injured at the hands of Indian forces.

Mobile services were suspended last month on the 15th after freedom fighter Burhan Wani was martyred by Indian forces on the 8th of July.

The following day internet facility in the valley was also suspended and has remained so even on the 35th day.

While postpaid mobile services were restored later in July, postpaid consumers were only granted incoming call facilities.

Since July many dozens of Kashmiri youth have lost their eyesight after Indian forces resorted to using pellet guns on unarmed civilians.

In the week following Burhan Wani?s martyrdom, a doctor treating victims of pellet injuried told AFP, "Most of them have lost their eyesight in one eye. They are going to walk out of the hospital as one-eyed boys."

Doctors at the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital have treated over 360 pellet victims since July 8th ? when Burhan Wani was martyred ? and have performed over 400 eye surgeries.

Devastated by the atrocities, the doctors protested in Kashmir on Wednesday at the Government Medical College Srinagar holding up placards reading ?Hear our silence, see our blindness? and ?Stop killing innocent kids?.

 

 

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Six terrorists arrested in combing operation near Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: Intelligence agencies conducted a combing operation on Friday at Gujar Khan and Kallar Syedan.

According to a statement by the Inter-service Public Relations (ISPR) six terrorists including two commanders have been arrested.

Weapons and IEDs were recovered from them.

Combing operations will be conducted till terrorists are arrested and their hideouts are eliminated, the ISPR said.

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