HEC Juggernaut and Pervez Hoodbhoy

Agreed. Instead of backfiring and counterattacking at Dr Hoodbhoy, HEC personnel should have addressed all the queries he raised in an appropriate way, if they had any intentions to possibly come clear.

[most faculty members in Pakistani Universities are just not capable of supervising multiple PhD students]
I say most cannot supervise even a single student!

I applaud Amer Iqbal`s courageous step to ask HEC to answer categorically the points raised by Hoodbhoy. It is not the HEC only, most of the other Pakistani government departments are being run similarly. PAEC, KRL and PCSIR Labs are other examples. The officials of these departments hate to listen to any scrutiny on their activities: an attitude apparent from HEC`s response to Hoodbhoy`s article. I remain surprised that HEC could not offer a response and effectively tried to suppress the matter, instead of correcting and scrutinising itself.

``...I recall a project very similar to this presented by a PhD student from a Pakistani ``..University at a Math conference in Lahore recently. The student wanted to derive all scientific facts and formulas from the verses of Quran and clearly indicated without any reservations, ...``

Are you sure? You are kidding the readers here! Aren`t you??

Mr. Hoodbhoy saw it coming and so did we who follow his works so closely and now it is also our job to back him up as much as we can. More later.