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Students challenge PMC’s 60% requirement
SHC rejects plea of former FBR official against sentence awarded in sales tax refund scam
KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court issued notices on Monday to the Pakistan Medical Commission over a set of pleas challenging the 60 percent marks condition for eligibility in written bachelors of dental surgery (BDS) admission test.
The petitioners contend that the PMC initiated its admission process but restricted students with below 60 percent marks in their intermediate exams from sitting for the entrance test.
The petition mentions that there are 690 BDS seats in the province and 515 of them are vacant.
During the hearing, the petitioners counsel, Haider Waheed, argued that the minimum 60 percent mark requirement was unjust with students.
Appellate tribunal rejects nomination papers of PTI candidate for Senate technocrat seat
Karachi
February 23, 2021
The Senate appellate tribunal at the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday rejected the nomination papers of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) candidate for the technocrat seats of the Senate from Sindh, observing that the candidate did not qualify to contest the Senate elections on a technocrat seat.
Appellant Ghulam Mustafa Memon had challenged the acceptance of nomination papers filed by PTI candidate Saifullah Abro for a technocrat seat. The counsel for the appellant, Rasheed A Razvi, submitted that the impugned order by the returning officer (RO) was untenable and liable to be set aside. He said that the respondent did not qualify within the statutory definition of technocrat and the only achievement of the respondent placed before the RO was a certificate issued to a firm for the completion of some projects and the same could not be considered as a national or