President Dr Arif Alvi has expressed displeasure over the delay by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) fornot attesting the degree of a former student on flimsy grounds andupheld the orders of the Wafaqi Mohtasib directing HEC to attest her degree within 7 days, besides initiating an inquiry against delinquentofficial responsible for wasting precious months of the student.
The President gave these directions while rejecting a representationfiled by HEC against a decision of the Wafaqi Mohtasib directing it toattest a female student’s BA degree within 7 days.
As per details, SaveraAfridi (the complainant) had applied to HEC forattestation of her BA degree and DMC but she was informed that since thesession of her degree was 2020, it could not be attested as HEC hadphased out two-year conventional B.A/B.Sc. program and the universitieswere not allowed to enrol students in conventional B.A/B.Sc. program after the academic year 2019. Feeling aggrieved, the complainantapproached the WafaqiMohtasib who passed the orders in her favour. HECthen filed a representation as well as a review petition with theMohtasib, which were rejected. Later, HEC filed a representation against the orders of the Mohtasib with the President.
The President held personal hearing of the case and rejected HEC’srepresentation. He observed that the complainant was given admission bythe University of Peshawar for the session 2019-2020 and the complainanthad produced a letter of the University dated 01.09.2022 which showedthat the complainant’s session for her BA degree was 2019-2020 and shewas given admission in January 2020.
