On Wednesday, out of 1191 only 8 candidates manage to clear written examination for the posts of civil judges. The examination was held by Lahore High Court. The results were announced by LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan in a ceremony, held at the LHC judges lounge, in presence of examination committee. According to details, more than 3100 candidates, including 896 women, submitted applications for the posts of civil judges. After scrutiny, 3067 candidates were declared eligible for examinations, whereas only 1191candidates took part in it. While addressing the ceremony, Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan said that all steps were taken to ensure transparency throughout the examination process. According to examination committee, examination centers were set up in Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur whereas the examination committee headed by Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan supervised the process. The detail and numbers of qualifying candidates are very disappointing and apparently displays the worrisome situation of the Country’s educational standard, but this is only one side of the mirror. There is another side which remained unexposed due to no reach of the candidates to the centers of powers. According to reports, currently most of the government departments use private testing services for conducting recruitment examinations to ensure transparency. Presently, there are numerous testing services such as NTS, OTS, PTS, ITS, CTS etc. These testing services performed all the process ranging from reception of forms, allotment of numbers, formulation of question papers and arrangement of the tests around the country. There were serious complaints from the candidates that these testing services are involved in dropping down numbers by making discriminatory screening test. These services add irrelative current affairs knowledge and make a single question papers for all categories of the applicants ranging from Computer Engineer to administrative officer. This situation led to the failure of such numbers as we witnessed in the case of civil judge’s recruitment examination. These private testing services are ruining the careers of our young generation for the sake of their rating. Otherwise, Pakistan educational standard is not so exhausted that our youths display such disappointing results. The Country’s concern intuitions such as HEC or ministry of Education must monitor the working ethics of the private testing services and set rules for them.
