Sindh University hailed for action against plagiarism

19 Jul, 2006

Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Tuesday appreciated an effort to curb and discourage plagiarism by academics of University of Sindh. Jamshoro which has withdrawn and cancelled the Ph.D. degree and issued a show cause notice to Asad Ali Sheikh for plagiarising a paper, already published by a foreign researcher.
Advance Studies and Research Board of University of Sindh in a meeting acted on the complaint received against Asad Ali Sheikh that as a pre requisite for his Ph.D. degree he had published a paper, which was originally published by Professor Zhi Wang in June 2002.
It is pertinent to mention here that apart from withdrawing and cancelling the Ph.D. degree, a show Cause notice has been issued to Sheikh. The Board has decided that the Ph.D. thesis will be reassessed by two other examiners and experts and the matter regarding award of Ph.D. degree be kept in abeyance till receipt of reassessed report of two experts and a further decision on it by the Advanced Studies and Research Board.
HEC has a zero tolerance policy towards plagiarism and has sent strict guidelines to universities in dealing with intellectual theft for personal benefit.

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