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The Peshawar High Court on Thursday stopped the Pakistan Medical Commission from cancelling the recent admissions to five private medical colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. APP/File
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday stopped the Pakistan Medical Commission from cancelling the recent admissions to five private medical colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and sought admission records.
A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Lal Jan Khattak also expressed displeasure with the long delay in the formulation of rules for the medical tribunal set up under the Medical Tribunal Act, 2020, and directed the law division to notify the same before May 27.
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench was informed on Tuesday by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) that five private medical colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were involved in irregularities in the recent admission process as they manipulated the 20 per cent interview marks.
The bench of PHC Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Mohammad Nasir Mehfooz was informed in two separate inquiry reports submitted by NAB and FIA that five of the 17 private medical and dental colleges in the province manoeuvred the admission process wherein lower aggregate candidates of MDCAT were pulled into merit by awarding them higher marks in interviews.
The court had taken a notice of the matter during the last hearing into a petition seeking orders for domicile restriction for admission to private medical and dental colleges in the province. APP/File
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to conduct separate inquiries into donation demands allegedly made by private medical colleges in the province for admissions and other related irregularities.
A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Ijaz Anwar ordered both the NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FIA to complete their inquiries within three weeks and submit their respective reports by April 27 and adjourned hearing until then into several petitions about admission to medical and dental colleges.