Fake Degree: SC seeks verified degrees from HEC
Verified copies of certificate and degree of Liaqat Hussain Bhatti were requested.
ISLAMABAD:
The Supreme Court has directed the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to provide verified copies of certificates and degrees of Liaqat Hussain Bhatti, former federal minister to the apex court and all the stakeholders. The directions were issued by a three-judge bench on Thursday, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, during the hearing of fake degree case of Bhatti, former parliamentarian from NA-103, Hafizabad. Counsel for HEC appeared before the court and apprised the bench that the Punjab University quashed the graduation degree of Bhatti on September 17. He further informed that Bhatti not only contested 2008 on the basis of fake BA degree but he also remained Federal Minister for Works during the Peoples Party government.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2013.
Why Mr Bhatti continued as a minister in last govt when his degree was declared as fake ? When are we going to learn ?