Pakistan court sacks judge over invalid law degree

Pakistan’s Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday sacked one of its judges over an “invalid” educational degree at the time of his appointment. Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri was appointed as an IHC judge in September 2020, and the issue of his degree first came up in July last year when a lawyer, Mian Dawood, challenged the law degree he got from the University of Karachi (KU) in 1989. A division bench led by Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar and Justice Azam Khan announced the judgment, which was reserved earlier on Thursday, on a plea that challenged the legitimacy of Justice Jahangiri’s law degree and appointment as a judge. Jahangiri ceased to hold his office forthwith for “having an invalid law degree at the time of his appointment and confirmation as a judge.”