The case was registered by the city police on the complaint of EDO Education; however, no student was nominated in the case. It is pertinent to mention here that hundreds of students staged a protest demonstration last Monday against the faulty result de-clared by Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rawalpindi.

During the protest, the students turned violent and attacked the EDO Education office.

Whereas, the parents condemned the registration of criminal case against the students and asked the district police to withdraw it because the move could put future of the students at stake.

They asked the Punjab government to take action against the BISE officials responsible for announcing faulty result asa large number of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) students were declared fail.

Meanwhile, Punjab Teachers Association Attock district also condemned Police and district administration for their failure to prevent the protesting students from attacking the EDO Education office.

The teachers` body demanded of the Punjab government to resolve the matter amicably and avoid taking any punitive action against the students. Dawn

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HEC sources said that money spent on a deserter`s PhD education, plus 25 per cent of it, would be recovered from the property that everyone granted PhD scholarship has to pledge before going abroad for doctorate or joining an institution in Pakistan for research.

Five of the 23 deserters detected so far have already been penalised thus.

Meanwhile, the HEC is tightening its rules to ensure that the PhD candidates and research scholars it finances return home after finishing their courses abroad and serve the country for at least five years before thinking of leaving it for greener pastures abroad. Every candidate who gets the HEC scholarship has to sign a bond to do that after completing his PhD or research work in foreign institutions. They are assured a job on return with a starting salary of Rs80,000 per month.

Students doing research at home and sponsored by their university for PhD scholarship pledge to serve the same university for five years on return.

Anyone who does not keep this commitment, and leaves the country, has either to pay back the amount spent by HEC on his research or PhD education, with a 25 per cent penalty, or the same would be recovered from the property he had pledged to HEC.

An officer of the HEC, requesting anonymity, told Dawn that 731 of the 3,100 PhD candidates funded by HEC had returned home after finishing their doctorate courses which last four to five years. Twenty-three of them, however, including 12 researchers who fell for better offers, broke their pledge and are working abroad. “So the HEC has issued them notices for recovering the amount spent on their education. It is unfair to get education at the expense of your country and serve to the benefit of another,” he said.

Another HEC officer recalled that some students went to North Korea and stayed back for the lure of good jobs. HEC had spent almost Rs4.5 million on each of them and declared them absconders.

“That led HEC to sign agreements with France and Germany that they will not convert the student visa into work permit without the concurrence of the HEC,” he said.

Coordinator HEC Wasim Hashmi said that HEC has a standard operating procedure to address the issue of absconders and is taking measures to ensure that all scholarship holders return and serve the country.Dawn December 3, 2011

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Microsoft Corp joined the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in recognizing World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, an event that calls on the IT industry, governments and consumers to speak out about the importance of IPrights. Strong IP protections are central to instilling a culture of innovation, which can spur economic growth, create jobs and increase revenue for the broader industry and government organizations.

Microsoft believes that the global arena needs stronger IP protections in place to safeguard the industry’s ability to innovate, level the playing field for small businesses, and help local governments generate tax revenue through the legitimate sale and trade of genuine software.

David Finn, associate general counsel for Worldwide Anti-Piracy and Anti-Counterfeiting at Microsoft, said:

In addition to strengthening the economy, sound IP policies can help reduce software piracy and counterfeiting, which we know sap government resources, threaten legitimate businesses and expose consumers to the risks that come from using non-genuine software. Software piracy and counterfeiting tend to thrive in places with weak IP protection, and this has an enormous, and negative impact on the global economy.

According to a study commissioned by the International Chamber of Commerce in 2011,the global economic and social impacts of counterfeiting and piracy will reach $1.7 trillion (US) by 2015 and put 2.5 million legitimate jobs at risk each year. Conversely, the economic rewards for countries that strengthen IP protection and reduce piracy are substantial.

According to an economic study by the Business Software Alliance, a reduction in the worldwide piracy rate by 10 percentage points in four years would create $142 billion in new economic activity and add nearly 500,000 new high-tech jobs around the world.

In a 2010 Microsoft-commissioned consumer perception surveyof 38,000 consumers in 20 countries, nearly three-quarters of consumers wanted the industry and government to do more to protect themfrom risks associated with non-genuine software, including identity theft and virus attacks.

By a three-to-one margin, consumers agreed that non-genuine software is not as safe to use as genuine software, and respondents named data loss and identity theft among their top concerns.

“Consumers and legitimate businesses are asking us to take action and reduce the risks that non-genuine software exposes them to, and we are 100 percent committed to helping them,” said Finn.“Microsoft invests heavily in technologies,education and enforcement programs to make software piracy more difficult, and we will continue to push for effective IP regulations on behalf of consumers and businesses.”

To help people and organizationsaround the world better understand the value of building a sound IP environment and the ramifications of using non-genuine software, Microsoft has posted information on IP licensing and laws on its website.

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The students will work as academic internees and also get field experience in disaster management.In this regard, the CDPM and Livelihoods Programme, Inter-cooperation Pakistan (IP), signed a memorandum of understanding to enhance their existing relationship and to work for improving local capacity through activities aimed at training and research in the field of disaster management in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Under the MoU, the IP would provide learning opportunities to students of the postgraduate diploma. CDPM director Prof. Amir Nawaz Khan and IP’s livelihoods programme team leader Shabir Hussain signed the MoU on Thursday in the presence of IP director Pierre Yves Suter and UoP vice chancellor Prof. Azmat Hayat Khan, says a press release.

Speaking on the occasion, the VC said that since October 2005 Pakistan had been hit by several disasters and the recent floods had affected all sections of the society in the country.

Prof. Hayat said that had there been efficient disaster preparedness and management system in place the loss of life and property would have been far less.

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