Summary Sindh High Court rejects a 13-year-old plea seeking Shazia Marri’s disqualification over an alleged fake degree.
KARACHI (Dunya News) — The Sindh High Court has issued its decision after 13 years on a petition seeking the disqualification of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MNA Shazia Marri over an alleged fake degree.
The court dismissed the petition as inadmissible, observing in its judgment that the High Court does not have the constitutional authority to disqualify a member of Parliament.
The petitioner’s lawyer argued that Shazia Marri had used the 2002 degree of another student with the same name as her own. The court noted that a similar objection had also been raised before an election tribunal during the 2018 elections, while the Election Commission had rejected the objection concerning the degree in 2022.
The court observed that an appeal against the election tribunal’s decision filed before the Supreme Court was dismissed in 2023 after it was withdrawn.
Shazia Marri’s lawyer argued that the issue concerning the degree had already been examined before the Election Commission on the basis of evidence and that the commission had previously rejected the petition regarding her degree.
The Sindh High Court observed that under the Constitution, judicial tribunals do not have the authority to declare a person truthful and trustworthy.
The court further held that a constitutional petition alone was not sufficient to disqualify a person and ruled that, in light of the Supreme Court’s directions, the petition was not maintainable.
