ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Auditor General of Pakistan Rana Asad Amin has started audit of the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) on directions of the National Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
The direction by the PAC came during its meeting held in the Parliament House in Islamabad on August 27 with the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah in the chair.
In the PAC meeting, Khursheed Shah said that CIIT was involved in illegal awarding of degrees.
Shah told the meeting that the Islamabad-based multi-campus institute had signed an agreement with a UK-based university without approval of the Pakistani government.
The Chairman PAC said that degree could be availed from the institution in just £2000 sitting at home.
“This scandal seems to be bigger than Axact scandal,” Khursheed Shah said.
Khursheed Shah urged the auditor general of Pakistan to take notice of the issue and conduct an especial audit of the COMSATS and subsequently submit a report to the PAC in this regard.
The sources said that the PhD thesis of the Pro-Rector of the CIIT and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Testing Service (NTS) has also been found to be over 70 per cent plagiarized.
