KARACHI: PEC issued notice on students' plea

KARACHI, Dec 3: The Pakistan Engineering Council, the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited and federal secretary education were put on notice by a division bench of Sindh High Court comprising Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad and Justice Maqbool Baqar. The bench was hearing a constitution petition filed by Muhammad Ali Shehzad, Dad Ali and other graduates of DCET, who moved the court against denial of their registration as engineer. According to the petitioners, they were admitted to Dawood College of Engineering and Technology after nomination by their respective provincial governments against provincial quota. They passed professional examination from Mehran Engineering University and applied for appointment in PTCL which sought their registration with the PEC. When the petitioners moved the PEC for the purpose, their request was rejected on the ground that the PEC had cancelled the accreditation of the DCET. Islam Hussain advocate appearing for the petitioners submitted that if the situation had been in the knowledge of provincial government, no nominations would have been made for the DCET. He maintained that petitioners had no nexus with the controversy between the DECT and the PEC. The bench after hearing the initial arguments issued notice to the respondents for a date to be fixed later by the office of the court. Meanwhile, the same bench issued notice to Sindh Secretary Health and Bahria Institute of Technology while hearing a petition filed by Saima Noor Shaikh, a candidate for admission to Chandka Medical College. Muhammad Nawaz Shaikh advocate appearing for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner appeared in the entry test conducted by the Bahria Institute of Technology. He said that the petitioner had attempted 90 objective questions while left 10 unanswered. When the result was announced, she was astonished to see that she was shown to have attempted 94 questions, four of which were wrong and therefore negative marking made her ineligible for admission. After initial arguments, the court issued notices to respondents for a date to be fixed later by the office of the court.
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