PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday arrested the vice-chancellor of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Dr. Ihsan Ali, and three other high-level educationists in the province over charges of misuse of authority.
According to a press release issued by the accountability watchdog, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa division of NAB were apprehended 4 accused in which former vice-chancellor of Hazara University, Professor Dr. Syed Sakhawat Shah, the chairman of NIMS College of Medicine Abbottabad, Dr. Muhammad Aziz Khan and former chairman of Higher Education Regulatory Authority (HERA), Professor Hamayun Zia.
The accused were allegedly involved in the misuse of authority and have swindled students seeking admission in medical colleges by luring them into an “illegal and unregistered” medical institution, stripping them of more than Rs 550million.
It was surfaced that Prof. Dr Ihsan Ali and Prof. Dr Sakhawat Shah, both former vice chancellors of the Hazara University, granted affiliation to National Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) Abbottabad with “ulterior motives” and conducted illegal examinations, without having a medical faculty at the institute.
