No mechanism for detecting plagiarism in Pakistan

By Shafaq Iqbal. Zia Batool was working at the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for over a decade in the capacity of Quality Assurance director general and was overseeing plagiarism cases throughout the country. But today she is struggling to gain her job back.
According to some PhD students, academics and educationalists, one of the biggest reasons for plagiarism in Pakistan is language issues. Scholars face difficulty in translating their own thoughts from their mother tongue to English. So they turn to the ‘copy-paste’ method not because of a lack of ideas or incompetency but because of their inability to compose a thesis in a foreign language. More...