Professional dishonesty: Probe committee says professor lied to get Grade 22

The Dow University has sent the report to Sindh governor, chief minister, HEC and Pakistan Medical and Dental Council


Our Correspondent September 06, 2015
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KARACHI:


A senior professor of the Dow University of Health Sciences has allegedly lied and cheated his way into gaining a Grade 22 promotion and trying to take the seat of vice chancellor in the leading medical college of Pakistan.


Prof Umer Farooq distorted facts to acquire Grade 22, a committee set up to probe the matter said in its report. The committee proposed demoting the professor from Grade 22 and withdrawing from him the perks and facilities available for the said grade.

The Dow University has sent the report to Sindh governor, chief minister, Higher Education Commission and Pakistan Medical and Dental Council. The issue came to fore when some professors working at the Dow University objected to Prof Farooq’s promotion to Grade 22 and wrote a letter to the university’s vice chancellor.

Acting on the letter, the university management set up a three-member committee headed by University of Karachi Law Faculty Dean Justice (Retd) Dr Ghous Mohommad, and comprising former VC Khairpur University Prof Nilofar Sheikh and Liaquat University Jamshoro’s Prof Karimullah Makki.

The committee, in its report, stated that it was mandatory for any health practitioner employed in government service seeking promotion in Grade 22 to get five research papers published in medical journals in a period of five years. Among these, three research papers have to be published in two years.

The committee said Prof Farooq had submitted three research papers from June 2011 to June 2013 to secure promotion in Grade 22. It found two papers correct, but the third one was never published in any medical journal. It was also revealed that Prof Farooq was the editor of the medical journal that had published two of his research papers.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 6th, 2015.

COMMENTS (2)

IBN E ASHFAQUE | 8 years ago | Reply Looks the Professor was not well connected otherwise 5 Punjab University Professors plagiarized their research and it took many years before they were apprehended.
Sodomite | 8 years ago | Reply He needs to be first dismissed and then criminally charged for lying and cheating. Demotion is not a penalty in this case.
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