 Some 20 years ago, while living in Pakistan, I thought of applying for higher education to a foreign university, and thus I had to travel 400 kilometers to a different city to the university in Pakistan I had graduated from. I tried to avoid this unnecessary travel by making phone calls. I asked friends in that city to visit the university and save me the trouble of travelling for 5 hours. I also sent a letter to the registrar of the university but no one relied. All I needed was an attestation of my degree sent directly to the foreign university. 