The Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court disqualified Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan \u2014 a PTI leader \u2014 on Tuesday for allegedly obtaining a license from the GB Bar Council on the basis of a fake degree.<\/p>\n
The order was passed by a three-member bench comprising Judge Malik Anayatur Rehman, Judge Johar Ali, and Judge Mohammad Mushtaq on a petition seeking the CM\u2019s disqualification.<\/p>\n
Ghulam Shahzad Agha, a member of the GB Assembly from PPP, had challenged Khurshid\u2019s law degree and sought his disqualification under Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n
The petitioner through his counsel Amjad Hussain had contended that the degree submitted by Khurshid had not been verified by the University of London and the Higher Education Commission had declared it to be fake.<\/p>\n
On May 29, Chief Judge Ali Baig had constituted a larger bench to hear the case with instructions to conduct day-to-day hearings and conclude the case within 14 days.<\/p>\n
The court had also issued notices to the HEC, the chief minister, GB Bar Council and Election Commission to submit their replies on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court disqualified Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan \u2014 a PTI leader \u2014 on Tuesday for allegedly obtaining a license from the GB Bar Council on the basis of a fake degree. The order was passed by a three-member bench comprising Judge Malik Anayatur Rehman, Judge Johar Ali, and Judge Mohammad Mushtaq on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n