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Friday, April 26, 2013
Dual nationality, fake degree : PML-N leader gets 15-month jail termSAHIWAL/KASUR/LAHORE: A district and sessions court on Thursday sentenced Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) worker Zahid Iqbal to 15 months in prison in the dual nationality case. Justice Mushtaq Ahmed awarded the jail term and fined the convict Rs 15,000. The police immediately arrested him from the court premises. Meanwhile, a district and sessions court of Kasur sentenced former MNA Rao Mazhar Hayat to two years in prison and fined him Rs 20,000 in a fake degree case.
The former MNA was sent to the district jail on the directives of the court. Over in Lahore, the high court declared the son-in-law of Aslam Madhiana eligible to contest election. A three-member bench of the Lahore High Court, headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan, heard the case. The court was told that Nadeem Sarwar was declared ineligible to contest polls from PP-34 Sargodha by the election tribunal despite the fact that he fulfilled the requirements of articles 62 and 63 of the constitution. The court, after hearing the arguments, declared Nadeem Sarwar eligible to contest polls.
Meanwhile, A full bench of the LHC conditionally allowed former MNA Syed Gulzar Sibtain to contest election from NA-145, Okara. The bench, while admitting a petition for regular hearing, directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to include the name of Syed Gulzar in the list of valid candidates. The bench also ordered the local police to produce until April 30 the record of a case against Syed Gulzar. An election tribunal had earlier held Syed Gulzar disqualified for his alleged involvement in a water theft case and for concealing his assets in the nomination papers. The counsel for the petitioner said that Gulzar was not nominated in the water theft case and had already withdrawn his shares from a CNG station, which his opponents claimed, belonged to the petitioner. staff report/agencies
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