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This company is very well renowned in Pakistan for its perks and many engineers rush to apply here. I had absolutely no clue this is what was going on behind the scenes. There is no talk about Axact operating shady universities back in Pakistan, and a scam of this scale is astonishing. Eye-opening article.

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Eh? Everyone knows they have a shady business. People have known that for years in Pakistan. The Pakistan Software Houses Association condemned Axact to be a diploma Mill long ago.

I had absolutely no clue. But in my defense I have not been in the local job market for some time. If it is such common knowledge, why has not anything been done so far?

As the article says, "All the while, Axact’s role as the owner of this fake education empire remains obscured by proxy Internet services, combative legal tactics and a chronic lack of regulation in Pakistan."

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