PPP, opposition big guns among non-cooperative members
Gilani, Chaudhry Nisar, Chaudhry Shujaat among list of members who failed to provide certificates to HEC.
ISLAMABAD:
Top politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties are among 428 legislators who did not cooperate with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in completing the degree verification process.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, chief of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and dozens of federal and provincial ministers are among those whose educational degrees could not be verified because they did not provide their Matriculation and Intermediate certificates to the HEC.
The MQM is the only party in the National Assembly and Senate whose members have been given a clean chit by the HEC.
The HEC recently handed over to the ECP a list carrying names of 428 ‘uncooperative’ parliamentarians who failed to produce their secondary and higher secondary school certificates.
The list contains names of 23 Senators, 138 members of the National Assembly, 153 of the Punjab Assembly, 21 of the Sindh Assembly, 83 of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and 11 members of the Balochistan Assembly.
PM’s non-cooperating cabinet members
1.Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi
2.Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira
3.Environment Minister Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi
4.Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour
5.Communications Minister Arbab Alamgir Khan
6.Minister for Popultation Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan
7.Minister for Youth Affairs Shahid Hasan Bhutto
8.Minister for States and Frontier Regions Mian Manzoor Wattoo
9.Food Minister Nazar Muhammad Gondal
10.Minister for Special Education and Social Welfare Samina Khalid Ghurki
11.Minister of State for Information Samsam Bukhari
12.Minister of State for Housing Chaudhry Tariq Anis
13.Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mehreen Anwar Raja
14.Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Farzana Raja
Prominent Senators
1.Law Minister Babar Awan
2.Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Wasim Sajjad
3.Former Finance Minister and central PML-N leader Muhammad Ishaq Dar
4.Former Minister of State for Information Tariq Azeem
5.Afrasiab Khatak of ANP
6.Gulzar Ahmad Khan of PPP
Other prominent members
1.Former President Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari
2.Makhdoom Javed Hashmi
3.Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan
4.Khwaja Saad Rafiq
5.Former Interior Minister Faisal Saleh hayat
6.Kashmala Tariq
7.Attiya Inayatullah
8.Amir Muqam
9.Fauzia Habib
Published in The Express Tribune, October 16th, 2010.
Top politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties are among 428 legislators who did not cooperate with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in completing the degree verification process.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, chief of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and dozens of federal and provincial ministers are among those whose educational degrees could not be verified because they did not provide their Matriculation and Intermediate certificates to the HEC.
The MQM is the only party in the National Assembly and Senate whose members have been given a clean chit by the HEC.
The HEC recently handed over to the ECP a list carrying names of 428 ‘uncooperative’ parliamentarians who failed to produce their secondary and higher secondary school certificates.
The list contains names of 23 Senators, 138 members of the National Assembly, 153 of the Punjab Assembly, 21 of the Sindh Assembly, 83 of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and 11 members of the Balochistan Assembly.
PM’s non-cooperating cabinet members
1.Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi
2.Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira
3.Environment Minister Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi
4.Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour
5.Communications Minister Arbab Alamgir Khan
6.Minister for Popultation Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan
7.Minister for Youth Affairs Shahid Hasan Bhutto
8.Minister for States and Frontier Regions Mian Manzoor Wattoo
9.Food Minister Nazar Muhammad Gondal
10.Minister for Special Education and Social Welfare Samina Khalid Ghurki
11.Minister of State for Information Samsam Bukhari
12.Minister of State for Housing Chaudhry Tariq Anis
13.Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mehreen Anwar Raja
14.Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Farzana Raja
Prominent Senators
1.Law Minister Babar Awan
2.Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Wasim Sajjad
3.Former Finance Minister and central PML-N leader Muhammad Ishaq Dar
4.Former Minister of State for Information Tariq Azeem
5.Afrasiab Khatak of ANP
6.Gulzar Ahmad Khan of PPP
Other prominent members
1.Former President Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari
2.Makhdoom Javed Hashmi
3.Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan
4.Khwaja Saad Rafiq
5.Former Interior Minister Faisal Saleh hayat
6.Kashmala Tariq
7.Attiya Inayatullah
8.Amir Muqam
9.Fauzia Habib
Published in The Express Tribune, October 16th, 2010.