Election qualifications: PU declares degrees of eight MPs ‘fake’

Six other members have been issued warning to submit their matriculation and intermediate certificates to commission.

LAHORE: The Punjab University has sent a final report to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) declaring the degrees of eight provincial parliamentarians as fake. The university said that it had no record of Pakistan Muslim League - Quaid’s (PML-Q) Muhabbat Khan Marri, Seemal Kamran and Amna Ulfat, PML-Nawaz’s Afshan Farooq, Farah Deeba and Shumaila Rana, and Awami National Party’s (ANP) Syed Aqil Shah. Naseer Akhtar’s degree was also declared to be a fake. Six other members have been issued a final warning to submit their matriculation and intermediate certificates to the commission. They include MPAs Noman Iqbal, Abdul Haneef, Mohammad Nawaz, Neelum Chaudhry and Mohammad Arkaan.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 7^th, 2012.