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The early birds to fall in snowballing fake degrees scam
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has sent its first list of four MPs, including one federal and one Balochistan minister and a senator, with foreign degrees, which look hilarious.
The HEC has revealed that, at least, two of these MPs were allowed to contest the 2008 polls by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) despite the HECs non-verification of their degrees in Nov 2007.
In its report sent to the National Assemblys Standing Committee on Education, the HEC declared foreign degrees of four MPs, including a Senator, an MNA/federal minister and two members of the Balochistan Assembly having been acquired from non-chartered foreign universities that are unknown and even sound hilarious.
According to the sources, all these MPs, hailing from Balochistan, have shown their degrees acquired from some unknown foreign universities, which are non-chartered and, therefore, not recognised by the HEC.
These parliamentarians include BNP Senator Mir Israrullah Khan, PPP MNA and Federal Minister for Livestock and Dairy Development Mir Humayun Aziz and two MPAs from Balochistan Assembly, including Minister for Information Technology and provincial coordination on NGO programmes and universities, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ms Shama Parveen Magsi and Ms Rubina Zafar Zehri.
Official documents, which include copies of the suspected degrees, also reveal that Assistant Director HEC Syed Asim Hussain wrote to M Rasheed Bhatti, Assistant Election Commissioner (HQ), officer of the Provincial Election Commissioner, Quetta, on Nov 30, 2007 and conveyed six cases of suspected degrees from non-recognised institutes, etc.
These cases included the names of Ms Shama Parveen Magsi, whose BBA degree from International University of America-London was even not recognised on Nov 30, 2007 but still the ECP allowed her to contest the elections. Similarly, Ms Rubina Zafar Zehris BBA degree from MiTech Institute of Management & Information Technology, Defence, Lahore, was also not recognised but like Ms Magsi, she too was allowed to contest the polls by the Election Commission.
Mir Israrullah Khan is shown to have done his Bachelor of Business Administration in 2004 from International University of America (London). The HEC declared it as Non-Chartered University. Mir Israrullah Khan is a member of the Senate.
Yet another Mir from Balochistan Mir Humayun Aziz who is a member of the National Assembly, has declared to have done Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing in 1999 from Fire International University. The HEC declared it too as Non-Chartered University.
Ms Shama Parveen Magsi, an MPA of Balochistan Assembly, has submitted her BBA degree to have got in 2005 from the International University of America (London), which too has been declared as Non-Chartered University. Another lady MPA from Balochistan Assembly Ms Rubina Zafar Zehri did her BBA from Mitech Institute of Management & Information Technology, Lahore in 1999. This degree has been embossed by the Lahore based duly authorised officers of the university.
Copies of all these degrees are also available with The News. In case of Ms Rubina Zafar Zehri, the apparently foreign degree makes an interesting statement, which reads as: Rubina Zafar Zehri having completed the prescribed studies and satisfied the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration has accordingly been admitted to that degree with all the rights, privileges and immunities thereunto appertaining In witness whereof, the Trustees of Mitech Institute of Management & Information Technology have caused this degree to be signed by the duly authorized officers of the Institute and embossed with its corporate at Lahore, Pakistan.
