This crappy story was published by The News only. Had there been a bill on the cards, it would have been given coverage by others as well.
Of course, there might be some back-door efforts being carried out but it is clear that the courts are having their way, the NA Standing Committee on Education was the one responsible for initiating the whole check-all-the-degrees decision, something all of you have forgotten and the general populace will of course forget in their hatred of the elected parliament. The News has been printing stories about HEC being pressurized, they deny it, no other paper publishes it. The NA Standing Committee itself is overseeing the whole process, the SC is trying to take the limelight here though based on a number of cases that were filed.
There hasn't been any major procedural blockade in the whole process as of now. Otherwise the NA Standing Committee would not have ordered checking the degrees of all parliamentarians, the decision would not have been followed by the ECP and the degrees would not have been acquired by the ECP through request and sent to the HEC foe verification which has already sent it out to varsities for verification. A number of the guilty ones have started resigning already.
Civil prosecution awaits them, that will be deal by the SC in the later part of the month.