While addressing a Regional Press Convention organised by APNS at Lahore, the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani disclosed that he had obtained a PhD degree in journalism from Marmara University of Turkey and he further assured the audience that that was a genuine degree.
His disclosure that his degree was a genuine one confirms that there are fake or bogus degree holders in the parliament. No one amongst the audience dared ask him as to when was he student in Marmara University and what was the topic of his dissertation that he submitted. Perhaps, he was awarded an honourary PhD degree like Mukhtaran Mai got from one of the American universities during her visit there after she narrated her harrowing tale of gang rape.
On the web site of Pakistan government, our celebrated Home Minister is also shown as PhD in criminology. The third one is our former Law and Justice Minister is also PhD.
MUHAMMAD AZHAR KHWAJA
Lahore
