ISLAMABAD – Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to restart the pending process of verification degrees of parliamentarians before its proposed devolution to the provinces and called degrees of 254 members of the parliament form Election Commission.
According to sources HEC has written a letter to Election Commission of Pakistan demanding the metric and intermediate certificates of 254 members of parliament for verification. The letter added that HEC wants to act upon the instructions of Supreme Court by completing verification of their degrees as early as possible.
The sources told Online that HEC has declared the degrees of those 254 parliamentarians suspicious which could not submit their degrees to HEC. If Election Commission would provide the required degrees, than HEC would evaluate their authenticity.
It is pertinent to mention here that HEC has declared some 60 degrees of members of parliament bogus whereas the verification of 254 degree were under process. The verification was discontinued temporarily due to the controversy that arose on the issue of devolution of HEC.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has allowed HEC to carry on its routine functioning till any legislation is made in this connection.
