The PPP MNA was offered the choice of resigning from the NA or facing the judgment of the court. — File Photo by APP

ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court has disqualified PPP MNA Jamshed Dasti for contesting elections while holding a fake degree.

A six-member larger bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry while accepting an appeal filed by Jamshed Dasti's opposing candidate also ordered by-elections in NA-178 Muzzafargarh.

Earlier, Jameshed Dasti had tendered his resignation to the Speaker National Assembly after getting the third degree from the SC.

Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday had directed dasti to tell him the names of Quranic paras and surahs and a flustered dasti told the wrong names of the first two surahs of the Holy Quran.

He also could not respond appropriately to a query regarding the duration of his religious education.

Given a shut up call by no less a personality than justice Ramday himself, Dasti was offered the choice of resigning from the national assembly or facing the judgment of the court.

Another MNA Nazir Jat has also tendered his resignation due to his fake degree and so has MPA Muhammad Ajmal.—DawnNews 

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