COMSATS has dismissed pro-rector Haroon Rashid

Islamabad: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology has sacked the services of pro-rector Haroon Rashid on bases of his plagiarized PhD thesis.

At first, Haroon Rashid was suspended from service on June 12^th, 2016 after being found guilty of plagiarism accuses.

The PhD degree of Haroon Rashid was also cancelled by Preston University after the Islamabad High Court confirmed the truth of the charges against him.

During the meeting it was mutually agreed that Mr. Rashid will be given a personal hearing on June 17^th, 2016. However, before that, he fled the country with his family and did not appear at the hearing organized on Friday. As a result, the COMSATS Board of Governors took the decision to dismiss his services because a valid PhD is a pre-requisite for the post of a pro-rector.

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Initially the news started roaming at the beginning of June after an HEC investigation concluded that Haroon Rashid had copied his PhD thesis. An investigating body from Preston University found out that the thesis of Haroon Rahisd had been copied up to 72 percent.

Though, the original thesis was written by Rafiqul Zaman Khan while the topic for his thesis was “Empirical Study of Task Partitioning, Scheduling and Load Balancing Strategies for Distributed Images of Computing System”.