ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday demanded the government to stop the devolution of Higher Education Commission (HEC) to provinces, saying that there was no such ‘constitutional compulsion’ in the 18th Amendment. “Devolution of the HEC to provinces will affect the future of thousands of PhD scholars and researchers who are presently studying and doing research work in the country and abroad,” PML-N Secretary Information Ahsan Iqbal said. Addressing a news conference at the party’s central secretariat, he said that the matter would be taken up in the upcoming session of the National Assembly in consultation with other political parties. He suggested to form a parliamentary committee to look into the matter of national importance and assured full cooperation of his party to resolve it. “The HEC can also be given under the Council of Common Interests (CCI) or a National Education Commission having representation from all the provinces can be set up,” he maintained. During the last eight to nine years, Ahsan Iqbal said, the HEC had produced quality manpower required in the industrial sector of the country, which was considered a backbone of the national economy. It provided the world class workforce to the industrial sector, bringing it at par with international standards, he added. “Today’s economy is knowledge driven and there is need to produce educated and skilled workforce matching the needs of industrial sector,” he said. app
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