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LARKANA, Aug 28: The returning officer for NA-204 (Larkana-I), Abdul Ghani Soomro, rejected on Wednesday the nomination papers of the chairperson of the PPP(SB), Ghinwa Bhutto, on the ground that she was not a graduate.
She had filed nomination papers to contest from NA-204 from where PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, has also filed nomination papers.
The returning officer rejected the papers after he got the reply from the director accreditation and coordination of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Pakistan.
The UGC said the mark sheets of the Technical Baccalaureate Part I issued by the president, directorate of examinations, Hanna Karam, Lebanon, was not equivalent to Bachelor’s degree of Pakistan.
The same returning officer also rejected nomination papers of Hafiz Ahmed Ali Abbasi, a candidate of the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal, from NA-204 (Larkana-I).
BENAZIR: Meanwhile, it was learnt that the UGC had maintained that the degree of Benazir Bhutto, which she had submitted with her nomination papers, was equivalent to Master’s degree of Pakistan.
Earlier, the returning officer had given a two-page questionnaire having 66 questions to Ayaz Soomro, Benazir’s advocate, for verification of her degrees.
Soomro told Dawn on Wednesday that after receiving the fax from the UCG that it had accepted Benazir’s degrees, there was now no need to submit the questionnaire that had been sent to her in London.
The scrutiny of Benazir’s nomination papers for NA-207 (Larkana-IV) and NA-204 (Larkana-I) would be held on Aug 30 and Sept 1, respectively, in Ratodero and Larkana.
