Science and Technology Minister Agha Hassan Baloch has ordered an inquiry against PTI leader Shahbaz Gill’s wife for obtaining a PhD scholarship and allegedly not completing it in the given time period, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Wednesday.

A committee comprising S&T officers will probe the matter.

The federal minister said money that will be recovered from the wife of Shahbaz Gill, would be spent on the poor children's seduction.

The minister is also the Pro-Rector of the COMSATS University, which issued the scholarship to Gill’s wife.

As per the COMSATS report, the wife of Shahbaz Gill went to the US on PhD scholarship and it was funded till 2014 and later the project was handed over to the HEC.

Reporter Saba Bajeer