Reformistani wrote this 2 years before this fraud was fully exposed. We are proud of our accomplishment bringing this charlatan down.
Who says Pakistan lacks all-rounders? Enter Amir Liaquat, a man of many professions, degrees, jobs & personalities. He is a strange man. In public, he berates the impotence of Muslim men unable to muster the courage, virtue and machismo to confront the west. Privately, he likes to apply makeup and polish to his wife’s nails according to his own interview in Women’s digest!
“Islamic piety” has become a business for some. It is a profitable business for the opportunistic “Dr.” Amir Liaquat. Amir makes a good living with his position in the program “Alim” online. Personally, I don’t get the attraction. Amir is blessed with very few natural talents. He does know what gullible people want to hear in an overly dramatic almost laughable delivery. He is a sharp dresser coordinating hair color and beard in the exact hue as his smart Kurta. The hair coloring is too good to NOT be a western brand. Indeed some of the lady callers are so smitten by Amir that well… the religious show can become a bit uncomfortable. The awkward tension in the middle of host/caller flirtatious niceties makes the real aalims on the show visibly uncomfortable.
The thing that is most striking about Amir Liaquat is that you can tell his whole act of piety is as artificial as the coloring in his hair, his excessive makeup or his…. numerous degrees.
Let’s take a look at Amir’s degrees:
“Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies” degree (Serial No: P-2002227 Dated March 17, 1995),
“Master of Arts in Islamic Studies” degree (No: P-2002341 Dated March 15, 2002) and
“Doctor of Philosophy in Islamic Studies” degree (No: P-2002528 Dated April 5, 2002).
The good Doctor got his doctorate three weeks after his masters and conveniently just before his appointment to a minister level position.
The good doctor said:
“These are all just lies. Before I never commented on this issue because, I believe, it’s in the nature of dogs to bark, and I don’t want to counter every bark made by a dog. This has all been done by a few people in some newspapers, and other people who don’t wish to see me in the religious spectrum of Pakistan. My PhD degree has nothing to do with my becoming eligible for elections since my medical degree was sufficient for that,”
Yes Amir. Dogs Bark. Apparently, dogs can also get degrees from an internet “university” based in CyberSpace for 70,000 Rupees!
Amazing fact – Amir was getting medical degrees at the same time as his Islamic degrees!
“True, I attached my honorary PhD degrees along with my other medical degree when I filed my nomination papers, but I ask, what’s wrong in that. Why should a storm stir up on this issue? Yes, it might be true that the Trinity College sells degrees or that other people buy degrees from it, but I wasn’t aware of or concerned with that. The point is that I got it for free and as an honorary degree.”
There you have it. A Phd., ladies and gentlemen, available for free.
Trinity College offers an All-in-One Package to its customers for UK Pounds 500 (US$960) in which all three degrees, Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate are offered together. This is what Dr Aamir purchased with the request to the college to put the 1995 date on his BA degree.
And now he claims that he has also been given the authority to issue ‘Fatwas”. May God help those who seek Fatwas from him and act on them as they would be following the words of an established “liar” and a “fraud” instead of an “Aalim” (a learned man).
Aalim indeed sir.
More recently Amir was at a majlis where many feel he was sarcastic and disrespectful of the prophet’s companions. Dr. L simply dismissed that as a “doctored” youtube video. Does the doctor of many disciplines not know that technology can determine if a video was doctored?
Pakistan has enough of these hypocritical losers. Let us hope that this charlatan, fraud and worst of all boring simpleton goes away.
