Fake Degree: Petition against former minister dismissed

Shaikh Waqas Akram freed of allegations.

Earlier, petitioner Muhammad Akram submitted that several TV channels had broadcast news that the former federal minister had contested the previous elections on a fake degree. PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS

LAHORE:
Additional District and Sessions Judge Safdar Ali Bhatti on Tuesday disposed of a petition against former federal minister Shaikh Waqas Akram alleging that he had contested two elections on a fake degree.

Earlier, petitioner Muhammad Akram submitted that several TV channels had broadcast news that the former federal minister had contested the previous elections on a fake degree.


Akram said he gone to the North Cantt police station to register a case against the former minister but the SHO had not entertained his petition.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2013.
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