HEC to submit report on degrees to NA Committee, EC today

ISLAMABAD: Higher Education Commission (HEC) will submit report on verification of degrees of the parliamentarians to National Standing Committee on Education and Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) today.

Executive Director Higher Education Commission Sohail H. Naqvi said the HEC will submit report on verification of degrees as per plan.

Adviser on Quality Assurance and Learning Innovation HEC Dr Mehmood Raza said that the Chairman HEC would send a series of reports after verification of degrees to the National Standing Committee on Education and the Election Commission.

HEC was given a deadline to finalise a report by last Friday by the parliamentary committee, which has initiated across the board checking of academic qualifications of all 1170 lawmakers.

According to HEC 939 copies of degrees were sent for verification out of which 736 were received back. The universities have verified 699 degrees as genuine and 37 as fake.

Another 168 degrees have still to be verified.

HEC is still engaged in the verification of the information provided by different universities, deeni madaris and foreign universities.

The Commission would forward the final report to the NA Standing Committee and the Election Commission, which would make the names public.