ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party, which has the highest number of lawmakers holding fake or invalid degrees, also dominates a new list of legislators possessing genuine degrees.
The list with names of 42 legislators includes those of 31 parliamentarians belonging to the party.
According to a copy of the list, ten Sindh ministers have genuine degrees — namely, Pir Mazharul Haq, Agha Taimoor Khan Pathan, Abdul Haque alias Dost Mohammad, Manzoor Hussain Wassan, Makhdoom Jameel-uz-Zaman, Zahid Ali Bhugrani, Zulfikar Ali Mirza, Dr Daya Ram, Sassui Palejo and Mohan Lal.
Dr Khalid Mahmood Soomro of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F is the only Senator on the list.
The list has the names of a dozen members of National Assembly, with nine of them belonging to the PPP. These PPP members are Dr Fehmida Mirza, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Afzal Sindhu, Amir Ali Magsi, Rafique Ahmad Jamali, Rubina Saadat Qaimkhani, Lal Chand and Pir Syed Fazal Shah Jeelani.
The other three MNAs named in the list are Ghous Bakhsh Khan Mahar (PML), Dr Abdul Qadir Khanzada (MQM) and Reena Kumari (PML- Functional).
The other members of the Sindh Assembly declared to be possessing genuine degrees include Anwar Ahmad Khan Mahar, Ghulam Qadir Chandio, Imdad Ali Pitafi, S. Mohsin Shah Bukhari, Abdul Karim Soomro, M. Nawaz Chandio, Sharjeel Imam Memon, Dr Sikandar Ali Shoro, Fayyaz Ali Butt, Abdul Salam Thaheem, and Humera Alwani (PPP), Fahim Ahmad, Syed Wasim Hussain and Sohail Yusuf Khan (MQM), Abdul Razzaq Rahimoon, Shah Hussain Shah Sheerazi and Dr Sajeela Leghari (PML-Q) and Ali Ghulam Nizamani (PML-F).
In all, 289 lawmakers have so far been given a clean chit while 46 have been declared to be holding fake or invalid degrees.
The Election Commission has already started summoning those accused of holding fake or dubious degrees to decide whether or not their cases should be sent to district and session judges for trial.
Six lawmakers were summoned to the commission last Monday, but only three of them sent their representatives to explain the reasons behind their absence, while the remaining three — Syed Mohammad Salman Mohsin, Javed Hussain Shah and Gulistan Khan — did not make any representation.
An official of the Election Commission told Dawn that the lawmakers who remained absent had been asked to appear before the commission on Monday (Aug 30).
Six more lawmakers have been issued notices to appear before the commission on Monday.
They are federal Minister for Postal Services Mir Israrullah Khan Zehri, federal Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Mir Humayun Aziz Kurd, members of Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Kishwar Kumar and Khalifa Abdul Qayyum, member of Balochistan Assembly Shamma Parveen Magsi and member of Punjab Assembly Saima Aziz.
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