PML-N MPA disqualified over fake degree

Ruling party lawmaker Raja Shaukat Aziz Bhatti was elected from PP-4 constituency of Gujjar Khan


News Desk June 20, 2017
PML-N lawmaker Raja Shaukat Aziz Bhatti. PHOTO: FILE

A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz lawmaker has been disqualified by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for possessing a bogus educational degree, Express News reported Tuesday.

A five-member commission of the electoral body headed by the chief election commissioner disqualified Raja Shaukat Aziz Bhatti. The PML-N MPA was elected from PP-4 constituency of Gujjar Khan.

The announcement of disqualification came two years after Iftikhar Kayani, a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidate from the same constituency, had filed a complaint with the ECP against the ruling party’s lawmaker.

PML-N lawmaker Mian Ziaur Rehman disqualified

Born in 1965, Bhatti was first elected as MPA, Punjab Assembly in 2008 general elections and functioned as chairman standing committee on environment protection between 2009 and 2013. His father Abdul Aziz Bhatti served as an MNA for two consecutive terms during 1972 and 1977.

In March this year, a PML-N lawmaker from Mansehra district was de-seated after the Peshawar High Court upheld an election tribunal’s decision which ruled that an educational certificate of the lawmaker was a fake.

Mian Ziaur Rehman from Balakot Tehsil had been elected to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly from PK-54 Mansehra II on a PML-N ticket in the 2013 general elections. He had won the seat after securing 24,283 votes, beating off competition from PPP’s former provincial minister Syed Ahmed Shah.

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