By merging them under the umbrella "Pakistani Dentist Scandal," the discourse shifted. The female dentist was wrongly perceived by some as a participant in "clinic-based indecency," while the male dentist’s actual criminality was diluted by the public’s obsession with the viral videos of the first case. This conflation highlights a failure of digital literacy in Pakistan: a failure to distinguish between a victim and a perpetrator.

Investigations revealed that several dental colleges were awarded recognition despite lacking basic facilities like libraries, working capital, or endowment funds Fake Degrees: In the wake of the wider