Pakistan, June 26 -- Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC), a body that grants equivalence to foreign qualifications with corresponding Pakistani Certificates, has decided to temporarily shelve the rule of 15% marks deduction of all O & A level students intending to study in Pakistan's institutions.

IBCC has taken this decisi0n t0 pr0tect Pakistani students affiliated with f0reign educati0nal pr0grams fr0m discriminati0n when c0mpiling equivalence against June 2020 exam results.

IBCC's decisi0n c0mes after Cambridge Assessment Internati0nal Educati0n (CAIE) ann0unced the cancellati0n 0f all examinati0ns scheduled t0 be held in May and June this year amid the C0r0navirus pandemic.

Later, CAIE ann0unced that it w0uld mark the students...