Sources privy to the development told Pakistan Today that the meeting of the search committee was held under the chairmanship of Syed Babar Ali on Tuesday. They said that this time around, the selection of the HEC chairman was proving to be a Herculean task since a number of shortlisted candidates were fighting cases in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Hence, they said that the selection committee was facing a daunting task to ensure merit-based selection of the commission’s new chairman, though this time no politician was made a part of the search committee. Meanwhile, the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) wrote to the search committee to follow merit while selecting the new HEC chairman. It also said that the selection process should not be completed in haste, rather all the candidates should be carefully scrutinised and the new HEC chairman should be selected after thorough deliberations.

Source: Pakistan Today April 03, 2018 16:55 UTC