Fake Degrees
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd.)
Rawalpindi , Pakistan
The Parliamentary Committee on Education and the HEC have literally opened the proverbial Pandora’s Box, as there are now demands from various quarters for not only verifying the degrees but also scrutinizing the attendance records, fees paid with duration of study at the college/institution and to find out if the person concerned had passed his/her FA and Matriculation examinations.
Some have demanded to widen the net and not keep it limited to the politicians or university teachers but also include all the civil servants at district, provincial and federal levels, the judiciary, lawyers, medical practitioners, engineers and employees of autonomous corporations, etc. A truly Herculean task!
It reminds me of the Mushrikeen of the USA, whom our clergy is never tired of berating day and night. No testimonials are required there to be attached by the applicant for a job – government or private. His/her word is accepted for the qualifications/experience claimed in the cv. However, if at any stage of the career later anything declared wrong is discovered, the culprit is not asked to resign, like Dasti, or asked to face the music, but sent straight to the prison along with heavy fiscal fines and recoveries.
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