Hilarious… I hope someone will ask him why he lied about his educational credentials..
But again.. it’s out of fashion in Pakistan to answer this sort sort of questions by men in power. Our President denied for ten years in parliament and media that Surrey property did not belong to his family.. and later when the property was sold after it was released due to NRO they claimed the sale proceeds without given any explanation to the people whom they claim to represent..
Babar Awan finally concedes he is no doctor from any university
Babar Awan finally concedes he is no doctor from any university
Umar Cheema
Saturday, February 18, 2012
ISLAMABAD: It is official now: Babar Awan has quietly conceded before the Election Commission through the latest nomination papers for the Senate slot that he is neither a PhD doctor nor had acquired any education from Saudi Arabia, contrary to his past declarations in 2006.
Not only he mentioned holding a doctorate degree earned from the fraudulent Monticello University of United States, in previous papers for Senate seat, he continued using the title ‘Dr’ with his name.
Even his twitter identity is @DrBabarAwan, not amended to-date. But in latest nomination papers, he is Zaheerud Din Babar only, without the prefix ‘Dr’.
His radical break from the past practice has gone unnoticed even by the PML-N, the main rival party that has not challenged this contradiction in his previous and present nomination papers.
The Supreme Court that has directed him to produce educational credentials after suspending his legal practice license seems to have forced him to submit a statement of facts in the nomination paper.
**As for Babar’s case is concerned, he declared under oath in the 2006 nomination papers, a long list of his qualifications.
Babar then disclosed that he did his Matric in Science in 1971 from Board of Sargodha; Intermediate in Humanities from Board of Sargodha in 1973; BA in Arts from the University of Punjab in 1975; Masters in Economics from the University of Punjab in 1978; DAL in Arabic Islamic Law from King Saud University, KSA in 1982; LLB from University of Karachi in 1986; and PhD in Criminal Law from the “Monty Cello University USA” in 1998 session. He also wrote his full name as “Dr. Zaheerud Din Babar Awan.”Awan, interestingly misspelled the fake Monticello university in his nomination papers as “Monty Cello” from where he affirmed to have done his doctorate degree. He claimed to have done his PhD in Criminal Law from “Monty Cello University USA” in 1998.
Notwithstanding his declaration of PhD degree in 2006 paper, a photocopy was not submitted unlike other educational certificates annexed with the documents. His DAL from King Saud University was not shown either.**
Farooq Awan advocate, his brother, however, then explained to The News that only graduation degree was mandatory to be attached with the nomination papers and not the rest. Farooq perhaps did not know although not required the copies of the degrees of Awan’s MA Economics and LLB were too submitted in addition to his BA degree and the certificates of Matric and Intermediate.
As his Senate term expires and Babar submitted papers for new bid, there is no mention of PhD degree from Monty Cello University US, a non-accredited institution declared fake, and DAL in Arabic Islamic Law from King Saud University.
There is no explanation as to why Awan avoided in 2006 to provide to the Election Commission these two foreign “degrees” one of which has already proved to be fake for the reason that the Monticello University, which issued Babar the PhD degree was never authorised to do so. For being a fraud, the university was not only fined a sum of US $1.7 million by a US court but also faced closure besides being directed by the court to return the fee of those defrauded.
He also informed the Election Commission to have paid Rs66107, Rs44950 and Rs42850 as income tax for the fiscal year 2004-05, 2003-04 and 2002-03 respectively. How, his latest tax return is quite modest, Rs862414, though outmatches with the heavy fee he claimed from the government alone, in different cases like Haj scam, commerce ministry’s cases and others.
