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LAHORE:The Punjab Assembly passed the Punjab Local Government Bill 2013 with a majority vote on Wednesday, after turning down a series of amendments, including for party-based elections, proposed by a treasury MPA.The opposition missed most of the session, which began at 10.30am, in order to attend an all parties conference on the local government law. Two delaying amendments proposed by opposition members 鈥?the first that the bill be circulate yeezys slide d among members to solicit their opinion before passage, the second that the bill be sent to a select committee for consideration 鈥?were taken up and defeated.Th dunk low e opposition urged Speaker Rana Iqbal Khan to put off the passage of the bill and adjourn the session till Thursday so they could attend the conference in the afternoon, but their request was rejected. Using that as a pretext, they announced that they were boycotting the session and left the house. The 17 other amendments proposed by the opposition were not taken up.In their absence stanley , a HYDERABAD:The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Hyderabad declared 99.82% of the nbbalance candidates enrolled in the Secondary School Certificate part II exams successful in the results announced on Saturday.As many as 70,074 candidates out of 70,201 registered students from eight districts in Hyderabad division and one in Nawabshah division have passed the exams.Of these, 5,380 students in the science group secured A1 grades, 16,678 A grades, 20,628 B grades and 14,654 C grades.Harris Razzaque of the Petaro Cadet College clinched the top position scoring 89.29 per cent marks, while Isra Abbas of Bakhtawar Cadet College in Shaheed Benazirabad secured the second position and Warish airmax a Kokhoar and Faeza Junejo of Latif Nizami Memorial Higher Secondary School and Hayat Girls Higher Secondary School, respectively, were awarded the third new balance position.The number of male candidates, at 45,079, was almost twice that of female candidates, numbering at 24,995. The difference was starker in r |