Blind tyro in Lower Dir shines in matric exams
Intikham Alam Jan cumulative 899 outlines out of 1,100 securing a fourth position in a matric exams’ humanities group..PHOTO: Express
PESHAWAR: Despite being blind, Intikham Alam Jan from Maidan, a encampment nestled in a hills of Lower Dir, has emerged as one of a toppers in Malakand’s matriculation examinations.
He cumulative a tip position among boys by obtaining 899 outlines out of a probable 1,100 and a fourth position in a humanities organisation among all students who sat for a exams.
Jan told The Express Tribune that he finished his primary preparation from class one to 5 during a propagandize in Mardan.
He aspires to turn a apparatus clergyman in English denunciation one day to offer students with special needs.
Against all odds
When he started out in school, Jan’s hermit would assistance him memorise his march books to seem in a exams.
“It was tough for me to investigate these books as there were no comforts in a delegate propagandize for people with a incapacity like mine,” Jan lamented.
He implored a supervision to settle educational institutes that would assistance students with special needs.
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Jan pronounced he had bought audio books to ready for a papers.
“I seemed for a exams as a private claimant as there aren’t any aloft delegate schools in a area,” Jan added.
“An 8 grader would write down a answers for me as we would foreordain it to him underneath a sharp eye of a invigilator.”
Jan has 8 siblings and one of his brothers is also blind.
“All of a losses for my preparation have been borne by my father and we go to a middle-class family,” Jan added.
When asked about his destiny plans, he pronounced he would like to be certified to a Islamia College Peshawar for serve education.
“Blindness is not my weakness, however, it hurts me when we see that a supervision has no comforts in place for infirm people ,” Jan said.
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Mohammad Javed, Jan’s father, pronounced that he was unapproachable of his son’s achievement.
“My son worked day and night in a month of Ramazan to grasp this position,” he combined with pride.
But he is sad that a Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Malakand did not give any incentives to his son.
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