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Yet another fake degree
PML-Q MPA Samina Khawar Hayat's graduate degree, along with BNP MNA Yaqoob Bizenjo's degree was found to be fake.
PML-Q MPA Samina Khawar Hayat
PML-Q MPA Samina Khawar Hayat’s graduate degree, along with BNP MNA Yaqoob Bizenjo’s degree was found to be fake on Tuesday.
Hayat’s degree says that she graduated from Rifah University in 2004, while the university claims it started its bachelors program in 2005. The university said Ms Hayat’s degree is a forged copy.
Meanwhile, Balochistan National Party MNA Yaqoob Bizenjo dismissed the authenticity of the Karachi University report that declared his degree as being fake.
He claimed he passed his Bachelors exams in 2007 and also said that he will resign if his degree is proved to be fake.
Yaqub Bizenjo is the latest of parliamentarians to get caught in a fake degree scandal.
The latest case of a parliamentarian being found to be in possession of a fake degree is one case among many cases of fake degrees in the recent past. Following many such cases the HEC sent the degrees of 934 parliamentarians for verification to universities across the country.
The University of Karachi received 106 degrees for verification. So far, two degrees have been declared fake. One of those belonged to Bizenjo.
The degrees will be sent for further investigation on July 15 with a full report to the HEC. Under the law, Bizenjo can be disqualified from his seat.
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i think After few Days,months Fake degree is necessary rather than real Degree.
our Parliament is full with Lairs..how can we survive with these lairsRecommend
Only disqualified? no punishment?Recommend
at least Ex-President Musharraf did something right of introducing a check and balance in the government personals ! .. and finally we found out that how many black sheep’s were in this nation ! …
I wish every one of them get’s kicked out we need some new blood in the game ! …Recommend
Disgusting. These people are ruthless for power and will even forge their own identities for it. Disgusting!Recommend
Morality supreme! Can anyone respect or take our parliament seriously after their shenanigans?! These are the guardians of the Islamic Republic. Can we believe what they say? I am disgusted.Recommend
what about our very own president? who holds a degree from a university that doesn’t even exist ..Recommend
the president even said that the Quaid-e-Azam was a non-graduate. I couldn’t believe it first but after confirming this, my heart pounds with fear that if this is the level of the most powerful man in this country, Pakistan’s future is surely not bright.Recommend
A fake degree will make you a ruler, a genuine degree will make you a clerk. Choice is yours….link textRecommend
Some serious LOL-age. Some MPAs are credit card fraudsters, while others are fake degree holders. Others have cat-fights while in session. Pity!Recommend
Indeed this is the right decission which took HEC against
our Parliamentarians……Recommend
what is it that I can write except “lol”? Indian parliamentarians are Phds, and masters, writers and too much educated,,,,what to say now… they have been writing their biographies and autobiograohies.,see the difference…..Recommend
Bravo!!! our country is being run by such smart people!Recommend
It seems that people have more fake degrees that geniune degrees in the country?
All the fake degree holders should write a letter in English language to the Head Master of their repective political parties, seeking relief from the degree barrier.Recommend
That’s why they decrease the education budget because they think that there is no need of education.Recommend
this is such an insane act, if still our janta does not realize these culprits who are the real menance to the society destruction, than Allah will punish us through these crazy illetrate junkies.Recommend
Just for the record: So far no MQMite has proven guilty for keeping fake degree!Recommend
Wow Pakistanis truly know how to select leaders !Recommend
Degree requirements should be immediately withdrawn.
There is simply no sense as to why having a degree would make better representatives. These people are elected by illiterate electorates, why would they be electing an educated person? Since the electorate is illiterate hence anyone remotely connected to the electorate would also be illiterate. If he isn’t, then he probably wouldn’t be a popular representative of the electorate.
The world has seen many personalities who have brought change but were never educated in the conventional sense. The degree requirement is part of the elitest double standards that this country is so fond off. Private/public english schools for the rich and run down urdu medium schools for the poor. Reading and Writing should be the only requirement that should be fulfilled by any representative. Even that should be forgone, if a person manages to mobilise masses to vote for him, then he is by default intelligent in some way.
Only 4-5% of the people of pakistan actually ever manage to get a higher degree.Recommend
Assalam-o-Allaikum Warahmatullah.Fake degrees’ trend in its full swing now-a-days in our MPAs and MNAs and much more surprisingly why Election Commission didn’t notice all of this on the time of documents’ submission for appearing in the elections?Now the fake degrees’ trend in Pakistan is suspecting the educated Pakistani youth whose are going to abroad for higher education and specialization in the subjects of science and technology and their future is on the edge abroad.Silence and approval of fake degrees of MNAs and MPAs on documents’ submission time is the question mark and raise the suspects much more for the educated youth in the future.Recommend
Wow, wasn’t she the one who wanted to ban late night cell packages and Allow Husbands to get married without the permission of their first wife?
Thank you Karma.Recommend
Dr. Javaid Laghari, HEC Chairman, is next in line of firings for his bold attempts. He is the one helming all these degrees verification.
He tweets @jlaghari.
Let’s follow him and let the powers that be know that we support his efforts in cleansing the parliament of riff raff.Recommend
Is a Parliament whose 1/3rd members are holding fake degrees and have choosen the known corrupt person to be the head of state can be termed to be SUPREME – SHAME – SHAME – SHAMERecommend