“In this regard positive progress has already been made,” the prime minister said while chairing the 5th meeting of Board of Governors of Special Technology Zones Authority.
In a bid to promote and develop IT sector in the country, he directed the concerned authorities to chalk out necessary policies to attract the international IT experts in Pakistan. PM Kakar highlighted that the Information Technology sector could play vital role in strengthening the country’s economy as Pakistan had huge potential in this sector.
During the meeting, various matters linked to the Special Technology Zones Authority came under discussion. The meeting endorsed the decisions concluded during the 4th meeting of the Board of Governors of Special Technology Authority.
The meeting also approved the re-structuring of the finance, audit and technical committees of the Board of Governors of the Authority. Furthermore, the meeting also approved the presentation of drafts of the Authority’s licensing framework, procedures and face regulations before the technical committee. Federal Secretaries of Cabinet, Finance, Information Technology, Science and Technology, Chief Secretaries of all the provinces and other Board members attended the meeting.
Meanwhile, President Dr Arif Alvi has expressed displeasure over the delay by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for not attesting the degree of a former student on flimsy grounds and upheld the orders of the Wafaqi Mohtasib directing HEC to attest her degree within seven days.
The president also instructed for initiating an inquiry against delinquent official responsible for wasting precious months of the student. He gave these directions while rejecting a representation filed by HEC against a decision of the Wafaqi Mohtasib directing it to attest a female student’s BA degree within seven days.
As per details, Savera Afridi (the complainant) had applied to HEC for attestation of her BA degree and DMC but she was informed that since the session of her degree was 2020, it could not be attested as HEC had phased out two-year conventional B.A/B.Sc. program and the universities were not allowed to enrol students in conventional B.A/B.Sc. program after the academic year 2019.
Feeling aggrieved, the complainant approached the Wafaqi Mohtasib who passed the orders in her favour. The HEC then filed a representation as well as a review petition with the Mohtasib, which were rejected. Later, the Commission filed a representation against the orders of the Mohtasib with the President.
The President held personal hearing of the case and rejected HEC’s representation. He observed that the complainant was given admission by the University of Peshawar for the session 2019-2020 and the complainant had produced a letter of the University dated 01.09.2022 which showed that the complainant’s session for her BA degree was 2019-2020 and she was given admission in January 2020.
