Disqualification again

Disqualification again – It seems that disqualifying elected high position holders of the state has become a rather new normal in the country. The latest such disqualification took place in respect of Khalid Khurshid, chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) who was disqualified by the GB Chief Court on charge of obtaining a licence from the region’s bar council based on a fake degree. His law degree was earlier challenged as it was pointed out that it was verified by the University of London with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) declaring it to be fake. It was reported that Khalid Khurshid had submitted an American degree which he claimed was issued by Axact to the bar council and obtained a lawyer’s licence. It was added that when the degree was challenged all records at the bar council were deleted and that later a degree issued by a London University was submitted in court that also proved to be fake. Khalid Khurshid was elected as the GB chief minister in 2020. He was fielded by an alliance of the PTI and Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen and won by securing 22 votes compared to nine votes by his opponent who was the joint candidate of the opposition parties JUIF, PPP and PMLN. The Weekender