Development came days after IHC dismissed Ahmed\u2019s plea against HEC\u2019s decision to cancel his equivalent degree
\n ISLAMABAD
\nNational Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) Director General (DG) Zulfiqar Ahmed has been dismissed from service over fake degree, according to well-placed sources. The development came days after the IHC dismissed his plea against the Higher Education Commission (HEC)\u2019s decision to cancel his equivalent certificate.
\nTaking disciplinary action in line with the IHC\u2019s verdict and unsatisfactory response to the show cause notice served on Ahmed, Nadra terminated his serves, the sources added. In 2018, Nadra directed him, among others, to get his degree verified. He provided \u201cverification of degrees in the sealed envelope\u201d to HEC. This pretended as if the verification certificates had been issued by the universities concerned and handed to him in a sealed envelope for submission to HEC, according to The News report.
\nThe HEC could only bother to check that both institutions were recognised degree-awarding institutions as per the record of UNESCO and the USA\u2019s Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
\nRegarding the verification of degrees, the HEC relied on the sealed envelopes handed to it by the applicant, Zulfiqar. It was not further checked by the university and provisional verification letters were issued. A subsequent letter from HEC issued in 2021 declared the verification certificates \u2018authentic and genuine.\u2019 However, the events unfolding later on suggested as if the verification certificates were made up by the applicant. And it was flagged by none other than his employer, Nadra .
\nA letter in June this year alerted HEC that the documents were suspicious.
\nHis MBA degree became doubtful on the grounds that the person who signed it was not the president of George Mason University in 1990. Zulfiqar\u2019s degree bore the signature of Edging R Marsey.
\nIn reality, George W Johnson was the university\u2019s president at that time. This suggests the \u201cprovided degree may be tempered with, fabricated or fake,\u201d reads Nadra letter to HEC.
\nHis BBA degree from Westwood College became doubtful on the grounds it didn\u2019t exist in 1987 when Zulfiqar claimed to have earned it.
\nThe college was initially set up in 1953 as Denver Institute of Technology offering diploma and degree programmes. It was named the Westwood College in 1997. \u201cThe degree awarded to Zulfiqar in 1987 by Westwood College seems illogical and therefore is suspected to be fake,\u201d Nadra wrote to HEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Development came days after IHC dismissed Ahmed\u2019s plea against HEC\u2019s decision to cancel his equivalent degree ISLAMABAD National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) Director General (DG) Zulfiqar Ahmed has been dismissed from service over fake degree, according to well-placed sources. The development came days after the IHC dismissed his plea against the Higher Education Commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-449197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n