Pakistan

PIA fires 200 fake degree holders

Pakistan International Airlines has fired 200 employees for presenting fake degrees at the time of hiring.

Mobin Nasir July 02, 2010

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines has fired 200 employees for presenting fake degrees at the time of hiring. PIA Director Public Relations Syed Sultan Hassan told The Express Tribune that employees were served warning notices multiple times and given a chance to prove their documents were valid before being handed pink slips.

According to Hassan, the degree verification process began in 1997 since when all contracts and letters of employment issued have clearly stated that education documents will be verified from relevant institutions. He said that after PIA was unable to confirm the documents, employees were served notices and given time to prove that they have, in fact, secured the degrees or diplomas that they claimed at the time of appointment.

The 200 employees whose documents could not be verified from their educational institutions had been told to respond to the charges against them by June 30. “All employees who were able to prove the validity of their documents remain employees,” said Hassan.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 2^nd, 2010.

COMMENTS (21)

Shafa Ullah Butt | 14 years ago | Reply Dear Fakes. Please don’t worry, you can go for Senator ship or become a parliamentarian in this God forsaken country

FAROOQ | 14 years ago | Reply THE SAME STEP SHOULD BE TAKEN BY EACH GOVT DEPT.

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Syed Kashif Hassnain Rizvi | 14 years ago | Reply Salam i am really much much happy to read about this problem in pakistan, its really very appreciated work which PIA has done, before comming here in Eu.i applied for the post of PIA Host but i was rejected cause i had no sifarish on that time, before taking my interview the door man (Chaprasi)told me o handsome guy do you have any sifarish i replied NO, then he said you will not get this post and he said truth... I am now in Eu. from last 4.5 years n really surprised to see how this nation grow up, they dont do corruption in getting jobs, here is no Sifarish, No rishwat all comes on merit bases... could you believe that i never heared about rishwat in this non islamic country these non muslims are very honest with their companies.

Malik Tariq Ali | 14 years ago | Reply PIA and other state owned corporations have been subjected to political abuse. Employees having fake degrees, fake domiciles, fake birth records were a common feature. Those who have been sacked were hired almost six to seven years back. It took the airline so much time to sack them. No wonder PIA is in a mess today.

Syed A. Mateen | 14 years ago | Reply The menace of obtaining fake degrees started when quota system was imposed in the country. Had this not been done, today the degree-culture would have been quite different for what it is today. People who had connections with the higher-ups in the government joined various organisations including PIA with the fake degrees. One of the core reasons for obtaining fake degrees is when organisations enhanced the level of qualifications to one step higher which forced lot of people to obtain a fake degree to apply for a particular position. The most important part of the fake-degree scenario is that people are expelled from the parliament and other organistaions but no one in the country has raised the questions that who were the people involved in issuing fake degrees? Is there any punishment in the law for such gangs operating in the country or not? Firing people from parliament or from jobs will not end the menace of obtaining fake degrees in future. The gangs will keep on operating and arranging fake degrees for those people who want to climb the ladder of success by hook or by crook. The issue of fake degrees have been highlighted by the media up to the extent that even people have lost trust from the genuine degree holders. All genuine degree holders should submit their original degrees to the respective universities and get their degrees verified with a rubber stamp affixed on the back side the degree mentioning that “it is a genuine degree” mentioning the date, signature and deal of the respective university. What about those people who have obtained fake Ph.D degrees after paying handsome amount from non-accredited foreign universities and write Dr. with their names? There are also lots of such Doctors in our country. How people are going to judge that a person holding a degree in medicine or engineering is a genuine degree?

naveed malik | 14 years ago | Reply Great work done by the pia.now all the head of department should take action against fake degree holders including themselves.

muhammad ishaq | 14 years ago | Reply In such sensitive and underdeficite organization should appoint hardwork,qualified and honest workers.This step which has been taken by the pia is apprecialble.My father served for 20 years achiving alots of appreciable certificates regarding honesty and hardwork for the organization.

me | 14 years ago | Reply does this mean there r vacancies in pia for genuine degree holders ?

Kamran | 14 years ago | Reply Now they can join the National Assembly and twist the constitution the way they want it to.

shehzad | 14 years ago | Reply fakery khappy khappy khappy!!!!!!!

Shahid Ali | 14 years ago | Reply Good Decision by PIA... But PIA have to make sure that they will not rejoin or any other Govt. organization they should be black listed to work in any other organization............

abdul khaliq | 14 years ago | Reply do nt be happy they have the right to be reinstated with with all rights in future as peoples party policy . and Pml N may also use the same

dewan haider | 14 years ago | Reply The timing of this announcement is bit interesting but nevertheless it is refreshing step towards better Pakistan.

ppp | 14 years ago | Reply sorry i have to amend my comment. let these thugs enjoy their luxuries or democracy will come under threat.

Ghulam Sarwar | 14 years ago | Reply Great! Now is the time to do the same in education department. In karachi, a lot of employees of education department, including teachers are on fake degrees!!! Jaali degree waale doosron ko kya parhaenge!!

Yousuf Anwar | 14 years ago | Reply Great work started by PIA , Let the change begin.

Malik Adeel Imtiaz | 14 years ago | Reply Yes Mr Sharjeel you are right they are everywhere but now they will evaporate like steam.

Ali | 14 years ago | Reply I hope they wont rejoin again, when things are settled because this is what happens in this country.

Sharjeel Jawaid | 14 years ago | Reply Let flying be a little less hazardous!

Sharjeel | 14 years ago | Reply These fake degree holders, they're like ghosts. They are everywhere :-(

Malik Adeel Imtiaz | 14 years ago | Reply Excellent Work.Now the Pakistan is on the right path.Change has started.

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