PML-N MPA disqualified by LHC in fake degree case

The LHC disqualified Malik Yasir Raza, acting on a petition challenging the validity of Raza's educational certificate.

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench disqualified PML-N MPA Malik Yasir Raza, acting on a petition challenging the validity of Raza's educational certificate.

Raza said that the decision of the LHC was unjust and vowed to file an appeal in the apex court against the verdict.

The petition challenging the MPA's intermediate certificate was filed by Ishtiaq Mirza. Justice Khwaja Imtiaz Ahmad of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench had, earlier, reserved his judgement of Malik Yasir Raza.

Ishtiaq Mirza had also been a candidate from PP-13, the same constituency where Malik Yasir Raza got elected in 2008.

There have been many cases of parliamentarians being disqualified for holding fake degrees in the past. Following much uproar, the HEC sent out 934 parliamentarians' degrees for verification to relevant universities across the country on June 29.