Dissolution of HEC and increase in pay structure of doctors

The Federal government has almost finalized the decision to dissolve HEC and to provide grants to the academic institutions and universities directly through provincial governments. This action will undo all the goood work of HEC and will severly damage standard of higher education in the country. Soome of the notable achievements of HEC include an increase in the number of academic publications, the fact that some Pakistani universities have improved their global rankings, increased university enrolment and a greater number of PhDs.

MQM is one political party in the country which did not even have one single fake degree holder in its ranks at the time of evaluation of degrees of MNAs and MPAs and has huge number of highly educated individuals as its supporters. If MQM takes the stance of opposing dissolution of HEC, it can win sympathies of thousands of very intellectual people who are observing this situation with a keen interest.

Similarly, after the ugly handling of strike of Young Doctors Association by the Punjab government, if MQM decides to increase the pay structure of doctors in Sind, it will be greatly appreciated by the medical associations throught out the country and especially in Punjab. Together these two actions will also do a lot of good to the the image of MQM in Punjab which would be just the perfect time before the hugely anticipated public meeting at Qaddafi stadium on April 10. The raise in salaries of dcotors might not be such a difficult step to take becuase MQM currently holds the pronvincial health ministry.

Dr. Fahad Azam