Pakistani Degrees No Longer Recognized in India
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The University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have asked Indian students not to pursue higher studies in Pakistani institutions.
In a joint notification, UGC and AICTE stated that students pursuing higher studies in Pakistan would not be eligible for employment or further education in India as their degrees are not recognized there.
In a public Notice, AICTE stated that “All concerned are advised not to travel to Pakistan for pursuing higher education. Any Indian national or Overseas Citizen of India who intends to take admitted to any degree college or educational institution of Pakistan shall not be eligible for seeking employment or higher studies in India based on such educational qualifications (in any subject) acquired in Pakistan’’.
An exception was made for Pakistani citizens who have been granted citizenship in India.
“However, migrants and their children who have acquired higher education degrees in Pakistan and have been awarded citizenship by India would be eligible for seeking employment in India after obtaining Security Clearance from MHA,”
Muhammad Ali, the vice-chancellor of Quaid-I-Azam University in the Pakistan capital Islamabad, said: “The advisory by the Indian higher education authorities is more related to politics, and dragging education into politics is deplorable.”
Tariq Banuri, chairman of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission said “Threatening students with consequences of denying jobs or not recognizing their degrees violates international norms’’.
The Indian government’s decision to cancel recognition of degrees obtained from Pakistan mainly affects students from Kashmir.
According to Pakistan HEC sources, Pakistan offers specially reserved seats for students from Indian-administered Kashmir either based on a valid visa or proof of migration from Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir to the Pakistan-administered part of the valley.
Pakistan offers seats to Kashmiri students either on a full scholarship or on a self-financing basis in its medical colleges, engineering universities, and other institutions of higher education.
Currently, over 500 students from Indian-administered Kashmir are enrolled in Pakistani universities and colleges and over 100 are in the final stage of their graduation, who would return in a few months and face non-recognition of their degrees and denial of employment opportunities which is against the international norm.
Now a large number of Kashmiri students in Pakistan are worried about their future after this restriction by the Indian government, which is against basic rights, Mir said.
Nasir Khuehami, the national spokesperson in India for the Jammu and Kashmir Students Association, said “Indian students in their second or third year of studies in Pakistan would be the worst hit, with their careers jeopardized. The government should bring in a policy for the students who are in their second year or third year and give admission to them in the medical and other universities of India under the special quota”
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