LHC allows two PhD scholars to go to South Korea

RAWALPIDNI, The Lahore High Court (LHC) here on Friday allowed two PhD scholars to proceed to South Korea after they were stopped by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and their names were put on watch-list by the Federal Investigation Agency.

Justice Asad Munir of the LHC’s Rawalpindi bench accepted the petition of the scholars Ziauddin and Mumtaz Ahmed who were not allowed to return to South Korea where they have been studying PhD in engineering on the scholarships offered by the HEC.

A lawyer representing the HEC told the court that according to a bond furnished by the students all scholars had to serve in Pakistan for two years after completing their studies abroad whether or not they got any job in their own country.

The judge observed that the petitioners were only scholars not human traffickers or smugglers to put their names on exit control and watch list and stopping them from leaving the country.