Degrees of 27 Dow University Employees Found Fake, Recovery of Salaries Ordered

KARACHI:The educational degrees of 27 employees of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi, have been found to be fake, prompting the Sindh Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to order the recovery of all salaries paid to them.

The disclosure was made during a meeting of the Sindh Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee, chaired by Nisar Khuhro, which reviewed audit paras relating to Dow University for 2024 and 2025.

Committee members Qasim Soomro and Makhdoom Fakhr-uz-Zaman, along with Dow University Vice Chancellor Nazli Hussain and other relevant officials, attended the meeting.

According to a PAC statement, the university administration has yet to obtain Higher Education Commission (HEC) verification for the educational degrees of 3,400 employees out of its total workforce of 5,350.

The committee directed the university to recover all salaries paid to the 27 employees whose degrees were found to be fake. It also sought reports from all public-sector universities regarding the verification of degrees held by academic staff and other employees.

During the meeting, Dow University’s Director of Finance informed the committee that the process of verifying employees’ degrees through the HEC had been outsourced to HRSG under a contract worth Rs7.36 million.

He said that degrees of 1,945 employees had so far been verified out of the university’s total 5,350 employees. Of these, 27 employees were found to have fake educational degrees.

According to the Director of Finance, all 27 employees whose degrees were found to be fake have already been dismissed from service.

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