This article from Pakistan seems to suggest that fake degrees were instrumental in deciding their recent National Assembly election. http://www.pakistanlink.com/headlines/Nov/03/05.html The head of the losing party "demanded that all those who had contested the election by producing fake degrees should be disqualified. He said his opponent, Abdul Ghafoor Lehri...obtained a fake degree from a madresah in Shikarpur. He said the ISI, employing the entire government machinery, ensured that Pakistan People's Party did not get a majority in the National Assembly." ("madresah" = religious seminary)
