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March 6, 2021
KARACHI/ SUKKUR: Upset with the PTI for not helping win Pir Pagaraâs brother a Senate seat from Sindh, the GDA has announced not to take part in Saturdayâs (today) vote of confidence being sought by the prime minister, though the Sindh governor and other important PTI leaders are trying to win over Pir Pagaraâs critical support. The GDA has also clarified that their support hinges on an inquiry and subsequent action against six âdissidentâ MPAs of PTI who did not vote for its candidate Pir Sadaruddin Shah Rashidi in the Senate polls. The Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) has sent evidence to the prime minister of âhorse-tradingâ of six PTI MPAs in the Sindh Assembly, who voted for the PPPâs candidates, helping the ruling party in the province to gain one extra seat from the province.
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February 18, 2021
SUKKUR: The PPP leader and former Senator Yasmeen Shah has been sentenced for two years imprisonment with Rs50,000 fine in a fake-degree case on Wednesday.
The District and Session Judge Badin, Javed Abbasi, has convicted her guilty of possessing a fake bachelors’ degree, submitted during the nomination for the Senate elections. Reports said after the degree verification by the HEC and decision of disqualification by the ECP, the court has sentenced the former lawmaker for two years of the jail term and a fine of Rs50,000. Meanwhile, the police have taken the criminal, Yasmeen Shah, into custody from the court premises and shifted her to Central Jail Hyderabad. Shah, in 2003 from the PML-Q ticket, was elected as a Senator and is the wife of former Sindh minister Syed Pappu Shah. Later in 2015, the couple, Pappu Shah and Yasmeen Shah, had left the PML-Q and joined the PPP.