ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) decided on Tuesday to get the educational certificates of Member National Assembly (MNA) Jamshed Dasti verified by the Karachi Education Board.
Dasti, who was elected from NA-175, Muzaffargarh, in the last general elections, faces cases under Articles 62, 63, Sections 4, 9, 137 of the Elections Act, 2017. Petitions have been filed against him by Ameer Akbar, Zulfiqar Dogar and Sardar Faizul Hassan.
One of the petitioners’ lawyer has claimed that Dasti’s educational certificates are fake. A three-member ECP bench headed by ECP Member (Sindh) Nisar Durrani heard the petition of Ameer Akbar regarding assets and liabilities against MNA Dasti.
The ECP’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) member inquired whether the MNA had any property that the Election Commission had not been informed about, to which the petitioner’s lawyer took the stand that Dasti had written FA qualification (Intermediate degree) on his nomination papers while he had not completed his matriculation.
He went on to claim that the Bahawalpur University had declared Dasti’s BA and FA certificates fake. “He claimed to have completed his matriculation from Bahawalpur Board, but that too is fake.” The petitioner’s lawyer further said Dasti had just submitted his matriculation certificate from Karachi Board in response, to which the KP member said the ECP had the power to disqualify him.
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