Due to his prolonged absence, Senior Civil Judge Hidayat Ali issued a bailable arrest order for the former Gilgit Baltistan chief minister.
The president of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Gilgit Baltistan chapter, Khalid Khurshid, was charged with obtaining a lawyer’s license from the Gilgit-Baltistan Bar Council by submitting a ‘fictitious’ University of London law degree and an affidavit to the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad to obtain an equivalency
He was chief minister after running in the GB elections from Astore. Gilgit Baltistan Court dismissed him for a ‘fake’ degree and prosecuted him for fraud.
A three-member court of the Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court disqualified Khalid Khursheed Khan in a fraudulent degree case in July 2023 after Shahzad Agha, a GB Assembly member, petitioned against him.
The petitioner claimed Khursheed’s law degree was fraudulent and needed to be dismissed under Articles 62 and 63. Khursheed claimed a London law degree but could not prove it.
Khalid Khursheed, a close PTI aide, had served since December 2020.
