We Are Not Asking for Charity. We Are Asking for Justice.
If you are a Pharm.D student in Pakistan enrolled at an affiliated college, chances are you already know this pain. You walked out of an examination hall confident. You knew your answers. You prepared for weeks. And then the result came out, and you had a supply. No explanation. No accountability. No recourse.

Or perhaps the opposite happened. You knew you had underperformed, and somehow you passed. Not because the system is generous, but because the system is random.

This is not a rare complaint from a handful of frustrated students. This is the lived reality of hundreds of Pharm.D students enrolled in affiliated colleges across the universities of Punjab, Sargodha, Lahore, Faisalabad, and beyond. We have spoken to each other. We have compared notes. And the conclusion is impossible to ignore: the examination and marking system governing affiliated Pharm.D colleges in Pakistan is broken, opaque, and deeply unjust.

What Is Actually Happening
Every year, in every examination attempt, a significant portion of students receive failing grades that do not reflect their actual performance. When they apply for rechecking, the result often remains unchanged with no transparency about how marks were awarded or why. There is no access to evaluated answer sheets. There is no independent moderation. There is no accountability for examiners.

The result of one paper can determine whether a student progresses with their batch or falls an entire year behind. Students with even one or two supply papers are barred from appearing in the next professional examination under current university policies. This means a student who is academically capable and largely on track loses twelve full months of their academic career over a single disputed grade.

The person writing this petition is a Second Professional Pharm.D student whose batch has already reached the Fourth Professional year. Two years of academic life lost, not due to lack of ability or effort, but due to a system that cannot be trusted to evaluate fairly.

This is not one story. This is hundreds of stories. And behind every story is a family that invested their savings into their child's education, a student carrying the weight of delayed dreams, and a future pharmacist being failed by the very institutions meant to train them.

 
The Double Standard That Cannot Be Ignored
What makes this even harder to accept is that Pakistan's own educational history proves a better system is possible. Under the old BA and BSc examination framework, students were permitted to appear in composite examinations. If a student had a supply from Part One and an annual examination in Part Two, they could attempt both together. The system recognized that a single pending paper should not freeze a student's entire academic progress.

That logic was sound then. It is even more necessary now, given the scale of the supply problem in affiliated Pharm.D colleges. There is no academic, ethical, or administrative justification for why this model cannot be reintroduced for professional medical and pharmacy degree programs.

We are not asking for standards to be lowered. We are asking for the same fairness that was once considered basic policy in this country's own examination system.

 
What We Are Demanding
Demand One: An Independent and Transparent Audit of Marking in Affiliated Pharm.D Colleges

Answer sheets must be evaluated by qualified, independent, and verifiable external examiners. A formal moderation process must be established and documented. Students must have the right to access their evaluated answer sheets upon request. Rechecking must involve genuine re-evaluation, not just a confirmation of the original marks.

Demand Two: Restoration of the Composite Examination System

Students with one or two pending supply papers must be allowed to appear in the next professional examination alongside their annual paper in a single composite sitting. No student should lose an entire academic year over one or two disputed grades when they are otherwise eligible to progress.

Demand Three: A Formal Grievance Mechanism for Examination Disputes

There must be a clear, functional, and time-bound process through which students can raise concerns about unfair marking and receive a genuine response. The current system offers no real recourse. That must change.

The Cost of Doing Nothing
Every year this continues, more students fall behind. More families suffer financial strain from extra examination fees, additional years of tuition, and delayed entry into the workforce. More young pharmacists graduate years late, not because they lacked competence, but because the system failed them repeatedly. The credibility of pharmacy education in Pakistan suffers. And the students who could have been serving communities as qualified pharmacists are instead trapped in an endless cycle of supplies and waiting.

This is not about one university or one college. This is about a systemic failure that spans the affiliated college model across Pakistan, and it demands a systemic solution.

 
Sign This Petition
If you are a Pharm.D student who has experienced unjust marking, sign this petition.

If you are a parent who has watched your child lose years of their life to this system, sign this petition.

If you are a faculty member, a pharmacist, or simply a citizen who believes that students deserve fair evaluation, sign this petition.

We are sending this petition to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, the Pakistan Pharmacy Council, the Vice Chancellors of all major affiliated universities, and the Federal Ministry of Education. We will not stop until this is heard, addressed, and resolved.

The students of Pakistan's affiliated Pharm.D colleges have waited long enough.

This petition is initiated by Pharm.D students from affiliated colleges of the University of Sargodha and is supported by students from affiliated institutions of multiple universities across Pakistan.