After years of practice and even serving as the vice-chairman of Punjab Bar Council (PBC), the law degree of Shahnawaz Ismail has been discovered to be fake.
A case incorporating sections of fraud has been registered against Shahnawaz in the Civil Lines police station in Lahore on the complaint of PBC Additional Secretary Rafaqat Ali.
The ex-PBC official was also the chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) in the Shahdara area of Lahore.
Sources said that Shahwawaz has only acquired education till middle level in school and his all educational certificates and degrees beyond it are fake.
The fake-degree holder had won in the PBC elections held in November 2020. Now, Shahnawaz has been removed from the post and his practicing license has also been canceled by PBC.