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Three hours of protest by the University of Karachi (KU) Bachelor of Studies (BS) students outside administration block on Monday forced the KU management...

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued notices to the federal government and Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) Chairman Tauqir Sadiq on...

ISLAMABAD - The Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Thursday declared that the university which had awarded LLM degree to Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) Chairman Tauqir Sadiq was neither recognised by the government of Pakistan nor the United Kingdom and the US.
The OGRA chairman claimed that he had obtained a Master's in Law from American University of London which, according to the HEC was not recognised both in the UK and the US. The OGRA chairman's degree and his

HONG KONG - The world's highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city's tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Victoria Harbour.
Towering some 490 metres (1,600 feet) above the bustling, chaotic streets of the Southern Chinese city, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is making a grand comeback after temporarily closing in 2008.
Visitors peered out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 118th floor of the International

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday referred five cases of lawmakers holding fake degrees to police for registration of criminal cases against the parliamentarians. An ECP official said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Hamid Ali Mirza referred the cases to the district police officers (DPOs) concerned. He said the CEC directed police to register criminal cases against the accused lawmakers for their involvement in corrupt practices.

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court has restrained the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from disqualifying minority Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Pitambar Sehwani of the Pakistan People's Party. The court also ordered the ECP to give the MPA a chance to argue the case filed against him, alleging him of possessing a fake academic degree.
An SHC division bench, comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Azhar Rizvi, set aside the ECP notice whereby Sehwani's membership was

LAHORE - The 2nd Chief Minister's Sports Competitions 2010-11 (Degree Level) will be held here from February 21 to 26. The competitions, organised by the Punjab Sports Department, will be held at the Punjab Stadium. The Education Minister Punjab and Chief Minister Punjab are expected to be the chief guests at the opening and closing ceremonies, respectively.
The competitions in the boys category will include athletics (100m, 200m, 400m, 1500m, 4x400m, 110m hurdles, long jump and

LAHORE - The Phase III of the 2nd Chief Minitser's Sports Competitions 2010-11 has entered the Degree Divisional level. 9 divisions of Punjab are participating in the event. The Divisional teams, including Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, DG Khan, Rawalpindi, Multan, Bahawalpur, Sahiwal and Sargodha, will participate in boys athletics, football, cricket, volleyball, hockey and badminton and girls athletics, hockey, volleyball and badminton competitions.
The Degree Divisional level

KARACHI - The degree of the suspended Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), Imtiaz Lodhi, will be send to Higher Education Commission or a charter accountancy firm for verification in the board meeting of PSM scheduled on February 4, 2011.
While the current acting CEO Wasif Mehmood appointed by the board had been posted to Lahore as a Deputy Manager before being appointed as CEO, he was serving as Director Production in the mills for the last three years,

PESHAWAR - Police on Saturday arrested a lawmaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly on charges of providing a fake graduation degree to the Election Commission of Pakistan. The arrest is the first of an elected representative in the country in recent months.
Sardar Ali Khan, an elected member of Provincial Assembly, appeared before the Chhota Lahore, Swabi District Additional Session Judge Jehangir Khan to get his bail before arrest confirmed. But the court canceled

ISLAMABAD - The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) expressed its dismay and anger on Tuesday when it found that a man previously expelled from the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited on charges of possessing a fake educational degree was currently serving as the acting chairman of the Pakistan Steel Mills. "Does accountability revolve around parliamentarians only, as others are offered lucrative positions as a reward for their corruption," said Riaz Hussain Pirzada, after learning that the

KARACHI - The Sindh Madressatul Islam College (SMIC) on Tuesday conducted interviews of students, who had cleared the placement test for admission in four-year BS Education programme.
SMIC Principal Dr Muhammad Ali Sheikh along with other members of the interview committee conducted the interviews. The college has already selected students for the four-year BS Mass Communication programme.
Sheikh said that the classes for BS programmes would commence from January 17 and the

ISLAMABAD - Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) hearing committee has closed cases of fifteen lawmakers who are accused of having fake degrees.
This decision was taken on Tuesday by the ECP hearing committee, which has been conducting hearings of fake degree holders for the last almost five months.
A senior official of ECP wishing not to be named said that during the first week of January, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) would refer the cases of those lawmakers to DPOs

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Ijazul Hassan concluded the hearing in a fake degree case against National Assembly member Rana Zahid Hussain and will announce his verdict on January 28, 2011.
Waheed Sabir, a citizen of Arifwala, filed a writ petition in the LHC, stating that Rana Zahid had a fake bachelors degree so he stood disqualified. It was stated in the petition that the legislator had submitted a BA degree from Sindh University to the election tribunal in 2002,

ISLAMABAD: Ostensibly succumbing to political pressure, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has seemingly all but forgotten about deciding fake degree cases against lawmakers.
An ECP official who declined to be named told Pakistan Today that only 3 out of 54 fake degree cases against lawmakers had been sent to police for first information report registration. "The ECP held 15 hearings against 54 legislators but recommended legal action against only three from the opposition

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has summoned eleven lawmakers on Monday to hear the cases pertaining to their either fake or invalid degrees.
The lawmakers would appear before a committee of the ECP headed by ECP Joint Secretary Afzal Khan to defend their degrees. Two national assembly's members summoned by the hearing committee are Mazhar Hayat and Mir Hamayun Aziz Kurd while the members of provincial assemblies are Seemal Kamran, Mazhar Hayat, Saima Aziz,

LAHORE: An election tribunal of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday summoned the Azad Jammu and Kashmir University registrar and controller examinations on November 30 along with the BA degree record of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Malik Riaz from NA-118.
The election tribunal consisting of Justice Azmat Saeed was hearing a petition filed by Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Chairman and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ticket