73 USA graduates move IHC for recognition of their degrees

Islamabad: Almost 73 petitioners, the former students of the National College of Computer Science, which is now known as the University Of South Asia (USA), filed a writ plea in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) via legal team of the advocates of high court, Yasser Latif Hamdani and Barrister Omer Azad Malik.

The 73 angry requestors are of the fact that their degrees dating back to the year 2000 are not being verified as well as authenticated by the Higher Education commission.

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The University Of South Asia is a chartered university which was set-up through two acts of provincial assembly, the Institute of South Asia Act 2003 and the University of South Asia Act 2005.

The main accused in the plea, higher education commission, had promised the requestors that their degrees will be authenticated and verified after the re-issuance by the varsity.

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Except the one petitioner, none of the other requestors has been issued degrees. The one requestor who has been issued a degree according to the rules of the HEC has nevertheless been denied authentication and verification by the commission in spite of the repeated promises.

The legal counsel, Yasser Latif Hamdani, told the media sources that there were at least 2,700 other such aspirants who had been denied their legal rights to life as well as trade through the arbitrary, unpredictable and eventually malicious actions of the higher education commission and the University of South Asia.

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Latif Hamdani has called upon the remaining students to join in the proceedings in Islamabad to make sure that justice is finally served and a very old matter is resolved via legal means.

The aspirants of NCCS/USA have been really suffering: being denied jobs, migration as well as prospects for higher education.