Pakistan

Fake degrees: LHC disqualifies PML-N MNA

The Election Tribunal of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has disqualified PML-N MNA Mudassar Qayyum Nahra.

Express June 21, 2010

The Election Tribunal of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has disqualified PML-N MNA Mudassar Qayyum Nahra for holding a fake degree.

The Lahore High Court gave this judgement on Monday.

Nahra was elected from NA-100 constituency of Gujranwala and the election commission has been ordered to hold elections in this constituency soon.

The disciplinary committee of the Punjab University had imposed a three-year ban on Nahra but he still got the degree from Bahawalpur university.

Not only did he obtain the degree without an NOC, he also used a fake address in all related documentation. Prior to Nahra's disqualification, the LHC had given him a two-day deadline to resign, but he refused to comply.

In the recent past, many PML-N provincial and national assembly members have been disqualified for holding fake degrees.

The issue of parliamentarians holding fake degrees have become a national issue of grave importance as more and more parliamentarians are found to be in possession of bogus degrees.

Following the uproar in the media concerning the matter of fake degrees, the the National Assembly’s Standing Committee for Education handed over 873 degrees of parliamentarians to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for verification on May 25.

COMMENTS (6)

sajid mehmood | 14 years ago | Reply Does nawaz sharif hold any degree? I dont think so, its one the reasons that he is not contesting election

Anwer Kamal Pasha | 14 years ago | Reply PML N has also accepted fake degree holders of other parties as three of them are re-elected as MPA after being disqualified ,

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asmatullah kharoti | 14 years ago | Reply the courts in pakistan seem to be independent to a greater extent, the credit goes to the lawyers who restored the democracy but it is a long way to go. all the parliamenterians especially the leaders of religious parties are relatively more cunning in this regard, so they should be dealt with stern hands as compared to the rest of members because they claim to be heirs of holy Prohet pbuh but are found in possession of fake degrees.

Ali Haider | 14 years ago | Reply Can PML-N not get someone who has a real degree to run for election? And look at the confidence of these people even when they are doing something like this...

Patriot | 14 years ago | Reply Why are asking the ECP to waste public money for re-elections...same people or thier cousins will get elected! useless!

KK | 14 years ago | Reply the bigger issue here is, How and Why are these people able to possess these fake degrees? Who will crackdown on the fake print shops? Where do they get these degrees from? From what i've heard, these degrees can be issued from the University itself. So when will the authorities crack down on them? There are so many questions linked to this issue. What are the authorities doing to take care of such situations?

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