Pakistan(National Times)- A guarantee submitted by a Pakistani PhD scholar, who was going to France on a scholarship, turned out to be fake.\u00a0 The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted a report to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) after finding\u00a0discrepancy in the signature via a scientific examination.\u00a0 Following the report, the court ordered the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to not recover\u00a0Rs25 million from the guarantor who had been appointed for getting a scholarship.\u00a0 The IHC said the HEC can\u00a0register a case and initiate criminal proceedings against the PhD scholar Imran Taj as well as the officials who were involved in the matter.\u00a0 According to the FIA’s report, the\u00a0scientific examination of the documents\u00a0revealed that the questioned signatures “do not\u00a0tally in characteristics such as fluency, hesitation, pen pressure and slow drawn with respect to the provided corresponding specimen and routine signatures of Abdul Waheed”. Moreover, the court also ordered the commission to impose\u00a0strict conditions on the scholarship program in the future, directing it to\u00a0reform its scholarship policy and issued guidelines. A 12-page judgment issued by IHC Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani declared null and void the judgment of the recovery suit filed by the civil judge Islamabad in favour of HEC to recover \u20ac85,406 and Rs76,386 Abdul Waheed \u2014 the guarantor.\u00a0 According to the judgement, Taj had signed an agreement with HEC after applying for scholarship that\u00a0would serve in Pakistan for four years after the completion but he violated it.\u00a0 He had submitted Waheed’s property documents as a\u00a0guarantor, however, Waheed revealed that they were fake as he did not sign them. Following the examination of the documents, they turned out to be fake. The IHC said that the\u00a0trial court did not attempt to verify the signatures despite the appellant\u2019s refusal, adding that the HEC does not have any\u00a0authority to recover from the appellant as a guarantor. The court said that the commission can initiate proceedings against Taj and the relevant officials. It also provided guidelines to avoid these kind of incidents in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan(National Times)- A guarantee submitted by a Pakistani PhD scholar, who was going to France on a scholarship, turned out to be fake.\u00a0 The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted a report to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) after finding\u00a0discrepancy in the signature via a scientific examination.\u00a0 Following the report, the court ordered the Higher Education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n