ISLAMABAD: The Working Group on Higher Education Reforms has prepared recommendations on transparent and merit based appointment of new chairperson of federal Higher Education Commission (HEC) and sent to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who is the controlling authority of HEC, as well as to members of the Search Committee formed by the prime minister to appoint the new HEC head. Through a letter to the PM by Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) PresidentDr Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry, who is also a member of the Working Group on Higher Education Reforms, on the behalf of the working group and FAPUASA Islamabad extended thanks to the PM for appointing an apolitical search committee comprising of reputed academicians and experts. Published in Daily Times, February 8th 2018.