Rawalpindi, (Parliament Times) : APSAMA has demanded a transparent inquiry from the Chairman Federal Board of Education into the controversial results of the female member of the Board of Governors seat.
Chairman Federal Board of Education Dr. Muhammad Ikram Malik should stop the final notification of the results of the Member Board of Governor female seat. Take immediate notice of the irregularities in the election and determine the internal and external elements affecting the e-voting system and conduct an inquiry against them. Due to the inactivity of the system, many school owners were deprived of exercising their right to vote in the current election.
This demand was made by All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association North Punjab President Abrar Ahmed Khan, Vice President Col. R. Fawad Hanif, President IPSMA District Rawalpindi Abrar Ahmed Advocate, Divisional President Rawalpindi Qazi Noorul Hassan, President APSAMA Women Wing and former member of the Board of Governors Mrs. Sakina Fawad Bukhari and former candidate Member BOG College and President APSAMA Cantonment Board Chaklala Syed Adil Ali Shah in their joint statement. Abrar Ahmed Khan said that the elections held on June 26 for the seat of Member Board of Governors raised many questions about the transparency of the election process. The portal not opening during the voting process, interference of internal and external factors, slowness of the internet, pre-casting of votes, etc. made the entire e-voting process suspicious. A petition was filed by Mrs. Sakina Fawad Bukhari against Dr. Rukhsana, the candidate who won the by-election, to the Returning Officer, saying that this woman had already exercised her right to vote for a college seat, and now how can she contest the election of a member BOG on a school seat. There is no mention of this in the Board Act. But the Board did not listen to us and allowed her to contest the election. Abrar Ahmed Khan said that on the day of the election, a message was circulating on social media that a person was interfering in the system by posing as an employee of the Federal Board by taking the school password from a private educational institution. But no one took notice of it. Mrs. Sakina Fawad Bukhari said that the written objections submitted by the candidates and school owners to the office of the Returning Officer were ignored. Mrs. Sakina rejected the controversial results before the Returning Officer and demanded that the Chairman of the Federal Education Board, Dr. Muhammad Ikram Malik, review the e-voting system through an IT specialist and correct the shortcomings found in it. A forensic examination of the entire system should be conducted to find out who tampered with the system, who slowed it down, and a policy should be made regarding the school owners who were deprived of exercising their right to vote. Former candidate and member of the Board of Governors College Syed Adil Ali Shah said that I had written to the Chairman Board and Secretary Board to form an independent body to supervise the election process, to which no one had any objection, but our request was not implemented either.