CUI panel clears rector of plagiarism charges

Allegations found to be of non-serious nature

The committee constituted by chairman, Board of Governors of then COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad and now COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), has cleared unverified plagiarism charges against all the seven research papers of the varsity’s rector Prof Raheel Qamar.

This committee was constituted to probe charges of plagiarism posted on social media against Prof Qamar. The allegations were found to be of non-serious nature. The committee also recommends that plagiarism policy of HEC should be revised so that it does not apply to materials already published earlier by the authors elsewhere. Prior to 2009 the software to check plagiarism was not available in most universities in Pakistan. 

Published in The Express Tribune, June 12^th, 2018.