SC directs PIA to verify its employees' degrees.

ISLAMABAD -- The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday directed the Pakistan International Airline (PIA) to conduct degrees' verifications of its employees and submit report to the top court.

The bench also summoned Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC), Managing Director (MD) PIA and Attorney General of Pakistan and directed them to appear before the court in person on next hearing.

A division bench of the top court headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed conducted hearing on a petition filed by a citizen Mudasir Hussain seeking verification of degrees of PIA employees.

During course of proceeding, the bench remarked that Al-Khair University Azad Jammu and Kashmir was a so called educational institution. The degrees had been sold out without educational process by the...