KARACHI: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has postponed the intermediate examinations scheduled for Wednesday due to the Youm-e-Takbeer holiday.
The Sindh government has declared Youm-e-Takbeer as a public holiday on May 28.
BIEK Chairman Ghulam Hussain Soho announced that the affected papers of Science Pre-Medical and Science General groups will now be held on May 30.
As per the revised schedule, Botany Paper I will now be conducted on May 30 from 9 am to 11 am.
Similarly, English (Normal) Paper I (for new and old courses, and failed students) and English Advanced Paper I (for failed students) will now take place on May 30 from 3 pm to 6 pm.
The board clarified that there will be no change in the examination centres.
May 28 is observed as a gazetted holiday across the country, which was already notified by the Cabinet Division last year.
Youm-e-Takbeer is observed every year in commemoration of the Chagai-I and Chagai-II series of nuclear tests conducted on May 28, 1998, that made the defense of the country invincible.
The day made Pakistan the seventh nuclear nation of the world and the first Muslim state to have a nuclear arsenal.
