Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE). (file) Photo
HYDERABAD:
As the scandal of issuance of fake certificates and mark sheets by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Mirpurkhas continues to unfold, a Naukot-based school has claimed that 463 fake certificates have been issued in its name alone. Speaking to the media in Mirpurkhas on Sunday, the owner of Thar Higher Secondary School, Naukot, Ahsanullah Bhatti, claimed that 375 certificates of intermediate and 88 of matriculation classes were issued in the name of the school.
“But there is no record in the school of the roll numbers against which these academic documents were issued,” he revealed. According to him, the certificates in question were released from 2021 to 2025, a period whose investigation is ongoing.
The revelation comes a day after the chairman of BISE Mirpurkhas Col (R) Dr. Syed Muhammad Alamdar Raza informed through a press release that 2,539 fake certificates were released by the board in the same years. He also provided a list of seat numbers from the years 2021 to 2025 which had received these certificates.
“Last year, I came across two such certificates after which I lodged a complaint with the controller of examinations Anwar Aleem Khanzada,” Bhatti shared. “But he didn’t do anything.” He maintained that the release of such a large number of academic documents has tarnished his school’s reputation.
Market, Pakka certificates and migration certificates were all issued by the board officials, he added. He offered his cooperation to the government authorities investigating the scam.
In response to a question, he knew of only two fake certificates associated with his school until November 2025. The figure of 463 certificates came to light after BISE Mirpurkhas issued a detailed list of roll numbers which were given fake documents.
The arrest of a secret department staff Azam Khan on March 16 by the Mirpurkha police and the associated suspension of over half a dozen officials, including former controller Khanzada, has exposed the alleged corruption in the board. Khan confessed to the police and also repeated the same allegations to the media that the corrupt officials used to seek between Rs 50,000 to Rs 500,000. for the fake records, unnecessary marks and pakka certificates.
Khanzada, son of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan MNA Abdul Aleem Khanzada, who himself served as chairman of BISE Mirpurkhas, is at the center of the controversy. He was suspended from his post as controller examinations on 9 March. Khan, who was produced before the media after his arrest at a press conference by SP Mirpurkha’s SP Quratulain on March 16, had accused Khanzada of being the mastermind of the alleged ring.
