KARACHI – The Sindh Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered the recovery of all salaries paid to 27 employees of Dow University of Health Sciences who were dismissed for holding fake educational degrees.
The matter came to light during a PAC meeting chaired by Nisar Khuhro, where audit paragraphs relating to the university for 2024 and 2025 were reviewed.
The meeting was attended by committee members, including Qasim Soomro and Makhdoom Fakhruz Zaman, along with Dow University Vice Chancellor Nazli Hussain and other relevant officials.
According to the PAC statement, the university has 5,350 employees, but the educational credentials of 3,400 have yet to be verified by the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
The university’s director of finance informed the committee that a contract worth Rs7.36 million had been awarded to HRSG to outsource the verification of employees’ degrees through the HEC.
Of the 5,350 employees, degrees of 1,945 had been verified, with 27 found to be fake, the finance director said. The 27 employees have been dismissed from their jobs, he added.
The PAC has also sought reports from all public-sector universities regarding the verification of academic staff members’ and other employees’ educational qualifications.