The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has sent 36 degrees of parliamentarians to foreign universities for verification. Earlier, 36 lawmakers out of a total of 1,170 MNAs, senators and MPAs, had submitted degrees obtained from foreign universities. On the other hand, 21 lawmakers possess degrees from religious schools, which are equivalent to graduate level education. Official sources told Daily Times that out of the total 1,095 degrees that had been received by the HEC so far from lawmakers, 161 were either illegible, irrelevant or were certificates of education below the graduation level. On June 28, the HEC had sent the copies of 934 degrees to domestic universities for verification. The process is expected to take 15 days to complete.