As many as 138 graduates received degrees in the disciplines of chemical and materials engineering at a convocation of School of Chemical and Materials Engineering (SCME), a constituent school of National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST).Held at the main campus of the University here on ...

ISLAMABAD : The 4th undergraduate convocation ceremony of National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Business School was held here on Saturday.  Mian Muhammad Mansha, a renowned industrialist, graced the ceremony as the chief guest. As many as 240 students were conferred bachelor ...

ISLAMABAD - The 1st undergraduate convocation ceremony of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SCEE) and Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Bio-Sciences (ASAB) was held Wednesday at the H-12 campus of National University of Sciences and Technology (Nust).Rector NUST Engr Muhammad Asghar ...

LAHORE - Punjab University has awarded five PhD degrees to the scholars in which Muhammad Munir S/o Farzand Ali in the subject of Punjabi after approval of his thesis entitled “Heer Damodar Te Heer Waris Shah: Taqabli Mutalea”, Khizar Iqbal S/o Malik Abdur Razzaq in the subject of ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan has de-notified 11 former parliamentarians for possessing fake and invalid degrees.The Commission has directed to register cases in lower courts against these members. However‚ they can take part in polls until convicted.These former parliamentarians will ...

The unfolding of the scandal of the parliamentarians managing to reach to the highest corridor of the power with fake degrees has sent a wave of shock to the nation and undermined the democratic profile of the country in comity of the nations. We should be eternally grateful to Dr Tahirul Qadri for ...

ISLAMABAD - More than 550 graduate and post-graduate students were awarded degrees at the 51st convocation of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) held on Tuesday.There were more than 550 students, who secured BS degrees in disciplines of Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics, ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday declared fake/invalid the degrees of eleven former MPs including three ex-senators and eight MPAs and ordered the respective Sessions Courts to initiate criminal proceedings against them.The eleven former MPs included Rehana Yahya ...

KARACHI  - Degrees of 77 out of 189 former parliamentarians on Saturday were proved genuine as the time allowed for the ex-legislators to get their degrees verified was expired.A list of dubious degrees will be forwarded to the Election Commission of Pakistan.According to reports, 80 former ...

ISLAMABAD - The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has informed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that the Bachelor’s degrees of former Federal Minister Sheikh Waqas Akram and former Punjab Assembly member Yasir Raza are fake.In a letter to ECP on Saturday, the HEC stated that the ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Monday that lawmakers holding fake-degrees could face criminal cases.According to a private television channel, a three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, resumed ...

RAWALPINDI - Thanks to Rawalpindi police’s verification drive, the degrees of a total of 22 police personnel of Rawalpindi Region have been found fake, it was learnt here on Thursday.Those police officials, whom degrees have been found fake included 4 Sub-Inspectors (SIs) and 18 constables. ...

LAHORE – The long-standing issue of the English Language Teaching and Linguistics degree has put the future of more than 300 students in doldrums as Punjab University’s Institute of Education and Research is not serious in resolve it, it is learnt.The ELTL graduates told TheNation that ...

LAHORE The sixth convocation of Beaconhouse National University (BNU) was held recently. The convocation was presided over by the chancellor of the University, Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, Governor of the Punjab. Also present on the occasion were Chairperson, BNU Board of Governors, Mrs. Nasreen ...

ISLAMABAD - Although no fake degree case of the federal government employees has been reported in the degree verification process initiated on the directives of Prime Minister so far, yet a circular has been issued to 86 officers of National Assembly (NA) to send copies of their academic ...

LAHORE The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistans 45th convocation, to be attended by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif as chief guest, will be held at Aiwan-e-Iqbal on Friday. Addressing a press conference, CPSP President Prof Zafarullah Chaudhry said the institution was unique in the ...

The Sialkot education department officials have stopped the salaries of as many as 200 male and female educator teachers. District Education Officer (DEO) Sialkot Rehana Kausar told the newsmen that the salaries have been stopped as the academic degrees of 200 male and female teachers have not yet ...

ISLAMABAD - Following the verification process of federal government employees academic degrees, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) also constituted a seven members team to carryout the exercise of degrees and certificates verification of its officers. In pursuance of Secretary, Establishment ...

ISLAMABAD - The disqualification of fake degree holder politicians is still a far cry as big guns, allegedly, still influence the degrees scrutiny process carried out by Election Commission of Pakistan, it is learnt. Apart from the 22 cases that have been sent by the ECP to the district police ...

ISLAMABAD - One fourths of the total sitting MPs are on the verge of losing their respective seats, as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) declared their graduation degrees as suspicious on Tuesday. The ECP sources told The Nation on Tuesday that as many as 298 parliamentarians including ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Degrees of 370 legislators has not been verified so far because of absence of supporting documents, including matric and intermediate certificates. According to HEC sources, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has sent letters to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on many ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has verified 658 degrees of the members of assemblies while authenticity of 370 is still to be ascertained. HEC Focal Person Dr Rahim Bux Channa told state-run news agency here on Sunday that out of the total verified degrees, 604 are genuine ...

Higher Education Commission (HEC), Chairman Javed Leghari has said that till now 300 degrees have been verified. Talking to Private TV channel, the Chairman HEC said, " Our sole purpose is to verify the degrees not to declare ineligible or disqualify any one. Whereas, HEC is an autonomous ...

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has sent degrees of more 9 parliamentarians to Higher Education Commission (HEC) for verification while minister for labor and manpower Khurshid Ahmad Shah has not filed his educational certificates so far. HEC sources told degrees of 22 members of parliament ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Election Commission of Pakistan shall proceed accordingly on fake degrees issue hopefully within a week or ten days in accordance with the directions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. According to sources, the Commission is finalising modalities as to how the aggrieved parties are ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman National Assembly Standing Committee on Education, Abid Sher Ali, has said that the Standing Committee has the authority to start the degree verification of lawmakers and it would follow the process till its completion. Abid Sher Ali made these remarks while talking to media ...

Secretary Election Commission Ishtiaq Ahmed said that a senior officer will monitor the scrutiny of degrees. He said that no action would be taken against the interests of the country. In a press conference in Islamabad, he said that Law Ministry will appoint new members of the EC. He said some ...

Higher Education Commission (HEC) has turned down the requests of Sindh University Jamshoro and University of Karachi for two more months to complete the process of confirmation of the degrees of lawmakers. HEC in a letter directed the two universities to conclude the process of confirmation of the ...

Balochistan University has received 60 degrees of Parliamentarians by Higher Education Commission (HEC) for verification here on Wednesday. As per details, Balochistan University has received 60 degrees of Parliamentarians dispatched by Higher Education Commission (HEC) for verification while Vice ...

Like all over the province, the Provincial Government has decided to check degrees of employees working in government offices of Rawalpindi. According to sources, recruitments were held in different departments including Potohar Town, Rawal Town, RDA, WASA, City District Government, Excise and ...