IHC disqualifies PML-N MPA Kashif Mehmood for holding fake degree.

ISLAMABAD -- Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday disqualified Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker in the Punjab Assembly, Kashif Mehmood, for holding a fake degree.

Abdul Ghafar, a voter of Mehmood's constituency PP-241, had approached the high court seeking Mehmood's disqualification under Article 62(1)(f) for submitting a fake degree to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

The petitioner had said that Al Khair University confirmed that Mehmood was never their student. Mehmood had told the ECP that he had graduated from that university.

The petitioner told the court that this showed that the lawmaker was not Sadiq and...