Université : émeute à راولپنڈی Rawalpindi – 14 décembre 2011

Students riot for promised exam result

dawn.com

By Inamullah Khattak and Mohammad Asghar

16 12 2011

RAWALPINDI, Dec 15: About one thousand college freshmen stormed the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) in the city on Thursday and set it on fire in frustration over BISE`s delay in announcing “revised results” of their first year examinations.

They arrived outside the BISE office on Sixth Road marching from Murree Road where they pulled down banners and billboards of political parties and commercial enterprises.

For a while the crowd stood there protesting that BISE had promised to announce the revised results on Nov 30 – after the original results were botched by a glitch in the board`s computer system.

Around noon, the protesters, worked up by the incessant chanting of slogans, broke through the policemen and barriers protecting the office and went on a rampage inside.

Eyewitnesses said the few policemen guarding the office fled as the students crashed through the barriers, and that emergency exit had to be arranged for the newly-appointed chairman and controller of BISE. Police called to the scene used batons and tear gas to control the rioting but failed. Read more…

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Rawalpindi (en ourdou et pendjabi : راولپنڈی) est une ville de la province du Penjab au Pakistan. C’est la troisième plus grande ville du pays après Karachi et Lahore avec 4,5 millions d’habitants en comprenant l’aire urbaine. Elle fut capitale nationale de 1959 à 1967, en attendant la construction d’Islamabad, située non loin au nord de Rawalpindi. La ville et le district de Rawalpindi sont confondus