ECP investigating 14 more parliamentarians
ECP to look at cases of 14 more parliamentarians who have invalid or falsified degrees.
ISLAMABAD:
An Election Commission panel will look at the cases of 14 more parliamentarians who have either invalid or falsified degrees on Monday, officials said here.
The three-member panel of the Election Commission was scheduled to meet by October 25 but could not somehow do so due to a host of reasons.
Afzal Khan, head of the committee, told The Express Tribune that some 14 lawmakers are appearing before the Election Commission panel to justify their degrees today.
The Election Commission says it will conclude the process of investigations into the matter of fake degrees within three months.
“Some three dozen parliamentarians have appeared before the committee, out of some 64 fake degrees holders so far,” Afzal Khan said.
Dr Rahim Bux Channa, a focal person for the HEC, says that a total of 582 academic certificates of legislators are genuine. The HEC found 64 degrees of parliamentarians invalid out of a total of 1,095, Dr Channa added.
As many as 18 cases of parliamentarians, whose degrees were challenged by their rivals, are in the courts and some 34 degrees are yet to be received by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) from various universities, he added.
Dr Channa said that the poll supervisory body has to send five degrees of legislators to the commission’s verification cell. By Eid-ul-Azha more than 750 degrees will have been verified out of a total of 1,095, he added.
Four lawmakers of Punjab Assembly will appear before the committee today where Haji Nasir Mehmood, Farah Deeba, Afshan Farooq and Safdar Gill will clarify their position on their alleged involvement in acquiring fake degrees.
The committee also summoned Balochistan Assembly member Shama Parveen Magsi. Four parliamentarians of K-P Haji Sher Azam, Maulvi Obaidullah, Sardar Ali and Syed Aqil Shah will be appearing before the Committee today. Pitanbar Sewani from PSM-161 and Mukesh Kumar of Sindh Assembly will also appear before the committee.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2010.
An Election Commission panel will look at the cases of 14 more parliamentarians who have either invalid or falsified degrees on Monday, officials said here.
The three-member panel of the Election Commission was scheduled to meet by October 25 but could not somehow do so due to a host of reasons.
Afzal Khan, head of the committee, told The Express Tribune that some 14 lawmakers are appearing before the Election Commission panel to justify their degrees today.
The Election Commission says it will conclude the process of investigations into the matter of fake degrees within three months.
“Some three dozen parliamentarians have appeared before the committee, out of some 64 fake degrees holders so far,” Afzal Khan said.
Dr Rahim Bux Channa, a focal person for the HEC, says that a total of 582 academic certificates of legislators are genuine. The HEC found 64 degrees of parliamentarians invalid out of a total of 1,095, Dr Channa added.
As many as 18 cases of parliamentarians, whose degrees were challenged by their rivals, are in the courts and some 34 degrees are yet to be received by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) from various universities, he added.
Dr Channa said that the poll supervisory body has to send five degrees of legislators to the commission’s verification cell. By Eid-ul-Azha more than 750 degrees will have been verified out of a total of 1,095, he added.
Four lawmakers of Punjab Assembly will appear before the committee today where Haji Nasir Mehmood, Farah Deeba, Afshan Farooq and Safdar Gill will clarify their position on their alleged involvement in acquiring fake degrees.
The committee also summoned Balochistan Assembly member Shama Parveen Magsi. Four parliamentarians of K-P Haji Sher Azam, Maulvi Obaidullah, Sardar Ali and Syed Aqil Shah will be appearing before the Committee today. Pitanbar Sewani from PSM-161 and Mukesh Kumar of Sindh Assembly will also appear before the committee.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2010.