Daily Times

The Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday the country-wide verification of lawyers’ degrees from 2005 onwards.

The orders were given as Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar heard a suo motu case regarding the verification of degrees.

The chief justice said that the verification process would take place at the additional registrar’s office.

The top judge also ordered bar associations of the country to cooperate in this regard and adjourned the till July 10.

In May this year, while hearing a case in Karachi related to the fake degrees of airline employees, the chief justice had remarked that senior counsel Hamid Khan should also see how many lawyers have fake degrees

Khan answered in the affirmative when asked if lawyers’ degrees should be verified.

“You can direct the bar associations to furnish these details,” the chief justice had directed further.

The court later took suo motu on the issue and directed all bar councils across the country to furnish a response in a month. The chief justice also directed the Higher Education Commission to provide assistance in this regard.

Published in Daily Times, July 5^th 2018.