KARACHI: A district and sessions court in Badin sent Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Yasmin Shah to prison for two-years and imposed on her a penalty of Rs50,000 for submitting a fake degree to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The verdict was announced on a petition of Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) leader Fehmida Mirza who went to the court and election tribunal against the former parliamentarian, claiming she had submitted a fake degree prior to the 2003 Senate elections.
In 2007, Sindh High Court (SHC) had ordered the appellate tribunal to conduct an inquiry into degrees of Shah and her husband, Syed Ali Bux Shah, to ascertain if they were genuine.
However, despite an ECP restraining order, Shah and her husband had contested general elections in 2008 and 2013 on Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) — and lost.
In 2017, the ECP ordered her to reimburse the salary and allowances she was paid during her time as a member of the Senate.
