To:
The Chairperson, Higher Education Commission Pakistan, Engr. Syed
Imtiaz Hussain Gilani
To:
Other current and former officers of HEC
Date:
Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM PST
Dear
Mr. Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gilani, and other current and former officers
of HEC
I
draw your kind attention to the following open letter. Is HEC
planning to reinstate this plagiarist like it did once before? The
plagiarist is going around defaming those who caught him red handed
and has managed to remove at least one public reference to his crime.
I
would like to put you on notice that the following infamy had
transpired before your tenure began, and what is presently
transpiring under your very nose that the plagiarist is defaming
those who caught him with impunity. Perhaps you have hitherto been
unaware of it. You no longer are.
What
are you going to do about it?
More
private white-washing, or, like a man taking the bulls by the horn
and making a public statement regarding this plagiarism case? I would
like to hope that your tenure will better the previous two
Chairpersons' and their common Executive Director's. No, not in more
idiotic national educational policies that remain indefensible, but
in actually doing something good for the people of Pakistan by
cleaning your own house first --- before you attempt to clean up
Pakistan's higher education system.
You
can only do that if you perceptively understand what you have
inherited, and also harbor a sensible vision of where you wish to
take the nation's higher education system. These two start and end
points, of your choosing, will determine the straight and narrow path
that our young generation eager for national guidance will march on
under your tenure.
Higher
education plays the most crucial and defining role in modernity as
you will surely agree. It can either craft integrity-free
likkha-parrha jahils with degrees and third-rate publications, often
plagiarized, tattooed on their forehead, or it can fashion a
ba-shaoor nation that can carve out its own destiny. Today, we don't
even comprehend the enemy, as both your predecessors, as well as our
national leaders demonstrate. Their begging bowl before the World
Bank has funded the most idiotic academic programs in Pakistan
putting us further in debt.
I
encourage you to not be so autocratic like your predecessors as if
HEC and its pious stewards, and their military and political
benefactors, alone understand what is good for the nation. I
encourage you to convene a working group of dissenting citizens and
concerned academics from Pakistan to examine the past and current
record of HEC to better understand these initial conditions that you
have inherited. The same working group may be charted to make
recommendations for the national direction of higher education in
Pakistan which may be debated publicly. These policies, and no other,
and especially not those bequeathed and
aided and abetted by the World Bank and the IMF, must be the rational
purview of any national body chartered to guide the nation's higher
education.
I
invite you to craft at least one university in Pakistan as your
legacy for which your own children and grandchildren will give up
their admission to MIT and Harvard. It can be done.
There
is a lot more untapped talent in Pakistan which is routinely
harvested by the West which can be put to national reconstruction.
But not if our brightest minds become economic widgets of the West.
The rest end up making up the bulk of their local marketing and sales
force.
As
this open letter betrays, there is evidently no shame among some
Pakistanis. But that brings great shame to the entire nation. Please
do something about it.
Thank
you for your time.
Sincerely,
Zahir
Ebrahim
California,
United States
Attachment:
Open
Letter to the Academe of Pakistan on the Masterpiece of Plagiarism in
Pakistan By Zahir Ebrahim
Source
URL:
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2014/01/is-hec-planning-to-reinstate-plagiarist.html
Is HEC
planning to reinstate the plagiarist like it did once before? Letter
to HEC from Zahir Ebrahim