Matriculation exams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been postponed by a month to April 18, previously scheduled for March 14, for Ramazan, the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Peshawar said on Thursday.

“At the insistence of students and parents, the schedule was changed for the sanctity of the month of Ramazan,” BICEP Chairman Prof Nasrullah Khan Yousafzai told Aaj News.

The decision to change the schedule was made in a meeting of all the board chairmen of KP, he added.

According to the controller examination, the government had asked the board to not conduct exams during Ramazan. So, while complying with the order, the schedule for exams was revised.