‘Fake’ degree: SC delists case against NAB’s Lahore DG

Matter of Shahzad Saleem’s degree came up in apex court last year

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Saturday delisted a case about the allegedly fake degree of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore’s Director-General Shahzad Saleem.

The matter of Saleem’s degree was brought up in the apex court last year during hearing of a suo motu case related to illegal appointments in the top anti-graft watchdog.



On Friday, the top court had announced taking up the case on Monday after the DG NAB Lahore made controversial appearances at TV shows in which he discussed the ongoing cases against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif.

The PML-N had taken a strong exception to the DG’s claims and submitted in the National Assembly a privileged motion against what it called the ‘media trial’ of lawmakers by an official who takes salary from the government. However, on Saturday the top court delisted the case, filed by a journalist Asad Kharal.



Kharral had claimed that 2002 transcript of Saleem’s master’s degree was in the Calibri font which was not commercially available until five years later. After an internal probe, NAB had declared Saleem’s degree genuine and cleared him of any wrongdoing.

The NAB official had recently told host of a talk show that the reporter who broke the story regarding his degree had already apologised to him upon being proven wrong. Minutes later, the reporter in the same show rejected his claim and said he stood by his story and had not apologised to the NAB official.