Forgeries and Plagiarism in University of the Punjab,
Lahore, Pakistan

Prof. Dr. Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi

Another case of forgery (plagiarism) is Prof. Dr. Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi . Almost all of her research articles are taken from students work without recognizing them. She has shown herself a sole Auther/writer of all thesis. Saveral complaints about Prof. Dr. Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi's plagiarism had already been made to the H.E.C through Executive Director Dr. Sohail H. Naqvi but no action has been initiated by the Higher Education Commission against her. According to Daily Dawn dated March 1, 2008 "Her entire work is based on students research/dissertations, undertaken during their academic years as practical assignments and which are being published by her without acknowledging the students’ efforts and without the permission of the department to bag high research claims. Some facts of Prof. Dr. Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi's plagiarism are as follow.

Aalia Shah studied at the Psychology Department during 1996-1998 session. Prof. Dr. Yasmin Farooqi had supervised her M.Sc thesis titled “Pre-post evaluation of depression and anxiety in patients undergoing mastectomy and hysterectomy”. On the basis of that thesis Aalia Shah was awarded degree of M.Sc. Prof. Dr. Yasmin Farooqi published the her research into journals under the title “Depression and anxiety in mastectomy cases” in Illness,Crisis and Loss Vol. 13(3) 267-278, 2005 and “Depression and anxiety in patients undergoing hysterectomy” in Journal of Pakistan Psychiatric Society Jan 2005; 2(1): 13 without acknowledging Aalia Shah's contribution. As goes the established rules in research, the work that primarily belonged to Alia Shah should have written her name as the first author of this paper or have due citation of her M.Sc thesis. View the complaint to Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences

These papers were presented by Prof. Dr. Yasmin Farooqi in following conferences as her own research papers.

The complainer has made complaints to the H.E.C and Vice Chancellor's office. But the matter was concealed.

Prof. Dr. Yasmin Farooqi has replicated the results findings of her student Naima Yasmeen's thesis “Study of Causes of Domestic Violence as Experienced by the Married Women from Da-ul-Aman, Lahore” (1992-93) in to her publication “Domestic Violence and Pakistani Women” published in Journal of Research (Humanities). Vol : XXV, No.2, pp.71-82 . The scale developed by student for her thesis, frequencies, percentages and results have been copied from Miss Naima Tahseen’s master thesis.

Inspite of all the the proves both documentary and circumstancial evidences, Dr. Jameel Anwar (Current PVC, University of the Punjab) submitted a fake report to Chancellors's office and thus protected Prof. Dr. Yasmin Farooqi's already proven plagiarism.

Prof. Dr. Yasmin Farooqi is well known and notorious figure among the university population for her negativity, rudeness, habit of shouting and victimization. Because of indifferent behavior and non-compliance with the administration she, various times,  was shifted from one department to another ( I.E.R, Sociology, Women Studies, Special Education etc), she created fuss everywhere. There also she was unable to comply with the authorities due to which she was sent back to parent department after receiving reports from inquiry committees and her written assurance /agreement to comply with the department authorities as well as colleagues. But she never kept her promise Because of her indifferent behavior, previous V.C hesitated to give her any responsibility. Present V.C favoured her and appointed as acting chairperson of dept of Psychology where she played havoc, terminated a number of employee and penalized many others withholding their salaries. One of her colleagueand student Ms. Fatima Kamran (Lecturer and well known Clinical Psychologist) also suggests her complete mental examination from any well reputed Mental hospital or psychiatrist. Number of complains were made against her attitude with faculty, students and employees. Some of thenm are as follow.

In an interview to Daily Dawn (published in February 8, 2007) Registrar, University of the Punjab Prof. Dr. Muhammad Naeem Khan declared her “emotionally unstable”. He said "the complainant in this case was “emotionally unstable” and did not enjoy good working relations with any colleague or student. He said the university administration was receiving complaints against her for the last two years."

She was appointed as an Acting Chairperson of Department of Psychology & Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab where she played havoc, terminated and penalized number of employees, faculty members and students. She is a notorious personality in University of the Punjab because of her immature attitude.

Despite her clear plagiarism, she was cleared by an inquiry committee formed by present VC. She was then nominated by present VC for Presidential Award as a bribe/reward to keep her mouth shut. What a shame and humiliation for Pakistan and Great Pakistan Nantion.