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When did
this Pakistani lawmaker actually graduate?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:34:49 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: A woman
lawmaker in Pakistan's Punjab assembly holds a graduation degree
that was issued in 1991, but she insists that she graduated in
1996.
She is refusing to appear before officials who are probing fake
degrees.
Seemal Kamran, a member of the Punjab Assembly, is among those few
lawmakers who have been continuously ignoring notices issued by
the Election Commission asking them to appear before its officials
looking into lawmakers' degrees, Dawn reported Tuesday.
Kamran's case came up when officials investigated cases of
lawmakers accused of holding fake or invalid degrees.
A Punjab University report said Kamran's degree was fake and had
never been issued by it.
A condition was imposed a few years back that candidates have to
hold a graduation degree to contest polls. but the Supreme Court
last year waived the condition. The 2008 general elections had
been held prior to that.
In all 15 lawmakers were asked to appear before the Election
Commission officials Monday, but more than half neither appeared
in person nor sent their representatives.
Seemal Kamran and three other Punjab assembly members - Shamaila
Rana, Farah Deeba and Syeda Majida Zaidi - have been told that
they are being given the last chance to appear Oct 21. If they
don't appear on that day, their cases will be closed and placed
before the Chief Election Commissioner for final orders.
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