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GUJRANWALA: A former Pakistan Muslim League –Nawaz (PML-N) MNA has been sentenced to one year in prison for holding a fake degree, Express News reported.
Mudassar Qayyum Nahra held a fake BA degree but had won elections in 2002 and 2008 as MPA and MNA respectively.
The case against Nahra was filed in 2008 on the request of the Election Commission of Pakistan. In 2010, he was disqualified from contesting elections.
Today, Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar announced the verdict, sentencing him for prison and fining Rs2,000 for his crime.
A heavy contingent of police officers was present outside the court to take the former parliamentarian to the jail, while a huge crowd of supporters was also waiting outside, chanting slogans in favour of Nahra.
The former MNA asked his supporters to remain calm and not obstruct the legal proceedings.
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@ Rafiq A. Tschannen. We are proud that you have Masha Allah such a great mother. Brother, the greatest qualities our mother possess is not to lie and never committed such immoral crimes like this fellow did i.e making and providing a fake B.A. degree to contest elections and lied in court till proved guilty. . @ White Russians. Had this crime happened in highly civilized countries like Japan, Korea or China, the criminal must have committed Suicide by himself before given a life sentence or beheading. . @ ishrat salim. The case of Jamshed Dasti is entirely different. His degree was never proved fake. Unlike other convicts who in their false degree cases refused to accept earlier but later proved guilty in and by the court of law, Jamshed Dasti surrenders himself on the very first appearances in court stating that he misunderstood his qualification of religious degree equivalent to graduate degree (like BA/BSc/B.Com etc) and took resignation before convicted guilty by the court of law. His degree was of FA/FSc level and he not knowingly took it as equivalent to Graduate degree. The court accepted his plea and the case was dismissed with his resignation. Soon after his resignation, the National Assembly passed 18th amendment eradicating the compulsion of Graduate degree to contest elections. Here after this amendment, Jamshed Dasti re-contested elections and Won.
That's it ..
Really .. 1 year plus 2000 rs
against the benefit of 5 year parlimentarian benefit amounting to at least 10-100 million. and 5 year of privilage life.
Feel ashamed to earn a degree now. ... should have just faked it.
A degree, fake or not, does not really show 'real qualities'. My esteemed (late) mother-in-law did not go to school and only had some home schooling, but I can assure you that she was more logical than the whole bunch of your present members of Parliament.
Another Feather for PML-N