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Jammu, July 04: The top court of Pakistan occupied Gilgit-Baltistan on Tuesday disqualified Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan for allegedly obtaining a license from G B Bar Council on the basis of a fake degree .
This order was passed by a three-member bench comprising Judge Malik Anayatur Rehman , Judge Johar Ali , and Judge Mohammad Mushtaq on a petition seeking the CM’s disqualification , Dawn reported on Tuesday .
Ghulam Shahzad Agha, a member of the GB Assembly from PPP , had challenged Khurshid’s law degree and sought his disqualification under Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution
The petitioner through his counsel Amjad Hussain had contended that the degree submitted by Khurshid had not been verified by the University of London and the Higher Education Commission had declared it to be fake.