Pakistan

HEC gives universities one-week deadline, fake degree count: 43

HEC on Wednesday gave a one-week deadline to universities to complete pending verification of degrees of...

Express July 21, 2010

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Wednesday gave a one-week deadline to universities to complete pending verification of degrees of parliamentarians.

The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by HEC chairman Javed Laghari. The meeting was also attended by vice-chancellors of several universities.

According to sources, the HEC recieved six degrees today including two fake and four from non-chartered universities. Sources added that, so far, the fake degrees toll has mounted to 43. HEC has declared 208 degrees of parliamentarians as authentic.

HEC chairman said that universities not in a position to comply with the July 27 deadline, should hand over the records to HEC.

Earlier in the day, MNAs Ramesh Lal and Ghulam Mustafa and Balochistan MPAs Bakhtiar Khan and Muhammad Khan were found to be in possession of fake graduation degrees.

Three of the degrees were declared fake by Shah Abdul Latif University where the administration said that no record of the degrees existed, while Karachi University declared Muhammad Khan's degree as bogus.

On July 19, the HEC submitted a report of the first phase of the degree verification process of federal and provincial legislators to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and the National Assembly’s standing committee on education.

More than 1,100 degrees were sent by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to the HEC for verification but it has so far received around 900 out of them.

COMMENTS (6)

Khadim Hussain Subhpoto | 13 years ago | Reply With fake degrees holders are being exposed shamefully, I wonder how we can still thingk of the soverignity of the parliament. Such people indeed bring a very bad name to the the parliament and the country. Their nefarious act must be condemmed in the strongest possible terms. This immoral and unethical act of theirs can never be justified in any circumstances whatsoever. All the political parties are supposed to drive such negative elements from their ranks to keep their credibility and reputation intact. The fake degree holders, no matter how popular they are in the massess, have no right whatsoever to sit the parliament, which is indeed sovereign without any doubt.

KASTEER | 13 years ago | Reply VERY SAD moments for us to face tht situation of fake degree holders....... I suggent for the fake degree holders tht shot him/her self and for this working i SALUTE TO THE HEC.