Inquiry committee to probe scholarship issue of Shahbaz Gill's wife.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Science and Technology Agha Hassan Baloch Wednesday ordered an inquiry committee to probe the allegations levelled against the wife of PTI leader Shahbaz Gill for not completing her university scholarship within the mandated time.

Last month it came to light that the PTI leader's wife Izza Asad Rasool owed around Rs18.6 million to the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) University, Islamabad.

The federal minister, according to a statement issued in this regard, has ordered the science and technology ministry to form a committee and include officials from the ministry in it.

The order comes after the varsity sent details of the matter to the ministry. Baloch said following the recovery of the funds, they would be used to educate underprivileged children.

A notice sent to the wife of the PTI leader last month from the varsity said that it demands the payment of official expenses worth $99,000 and Rs86,000, spent on account of tuition fees, living allowance, and airfare.

According to the notice, Rasool went to the United States 11 years ago in 2011 to pursue an MS leading to PhD studies in the field of Labour and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (UIUC). The...