ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned plea challengingpost-graduate degree of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) LahoreDirector General Shahzad Saleem for two weeks.
A three-member bench headed by Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, heard the plea,filed by a journalist Asad Kharal.
Azhar Saddiqui, counsel for DG NAB apprised the the bench that HigherEducation Commission (HEC) had declared the post-graduation degree of hisclient, genuine.
He said that HEC verified Saleem’s degree (MSc Computer Sciences) and foundit 100 per cent genuine and valid (from the Azad Jammu and Kashmir in2000-02) following the court orders dated December 24, 2018.
He pleaded that court orders had been executed and there was no need toproceed this case any more.
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Meanwhile, Additional Director NAB apprised the bench that bureau hadsubmitted its reply and report on the matter before the apex court.
Justice Azmat remarked that court would look into the reply submitted bythe litigants and then could pass any order in this regard. The benchsubsequently adjourned furtherhearing of the case for two weeks.The matter of Saleem’s degree was brought up in the apex court last yearduring hearing of a suo motu case related to illegal appointments in theNAB.
Kharral had claimed that 2002 transcript of Saleem’s master’s degree wasin the Calibri font which was not commercially available until five yearslater. After an internal probe, NAB had declared Saleem’s degree genuineand cleared him of any wrongdoing.
