Chaudhry Kashif Mehmood, a disqualified Member of Punjab Assembly of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), filed an intra court appeal on Thursday before Islamabad High Court (IHC), challenging his disqualification for possessing a fake degree.

A division bench of IHC comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Fiaz Ahmad Anjum Jandran heard the case and deferred the hearing for one week by giving time to the petitioner's counsel for preparation.

Mehmood moved the court through his counsel Kulsum Khaliq Advocate and adopted that the single bench did not consider the facts and circumstances of the case and disqualify/de-notify the appellant only on the report of Al-Khair University but the appellant was not the student of Al-Khair University nor he studied in the said university.

He prayed the court to set aside the impugned order dated 31-01-2020, passed by the learned single judge and the appellant may kindly be qualified for holding the position of Member Punjab Assembly and the Election Commission of Pakistan may be directed to notify the appellant as a successful candidate.

A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Aamer Farooq on 31st January announced the verdict of disqualifying the MPA in the court and also directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to de-seat the lawmaker.

The petition was filed by Abdul Ghaffar that sought disqualification of Mehmood as he had allegedly contested the 2018's general election on basis of a fake educational degree.

Previously, a private university declared that the MPA of PML-N from Bahawalnagar Kashif holds a bogus degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA). The university on the directive of the IIHC had submitted a report about the authenticity of the MPA's educational credentials. In its report the university said that Mahmood had never been its student.