The 16-year-old, however, did not allow the adversity to become his weakness, and went on to pass the Class 10 exams with flying colours. Suhaib scored 72 per cent marks in his Class10 exams held in November last year, despite facing odds. "Three pellet victims had appeared for the Class X exams in Pulwama district. Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, Professor Zahoor Ahmad Chatt said, the facility of providing helpers to pellet victims would continue in future too. The summer unrest had dealt a crushing blow to the education system in the strife-torn Kashmir Valley in 2016.

Source: dna January 18, 2017 02:29 UTC