November 2, 2002	Saturday	Sha’aban 26,1423

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ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: Former president of Pakistan People’s Party, Balochistan, Sadiq Umrani, on Friday alleged that Mir Zafarullah Jamali “is an absconder” of accountability court, Quetta.

Speaking at a press conference, Mr Umrani claimed that the Balochistan High Court had also issued orders of his arrest in a case concerning Kach Floor Mills in which he had allegedly embezzled Rs340 million.

Abdus Sattar Lasi, who was secretary food and a co-accomplice in the case, was still in jail while Mr Jamali was declared principal accused by the high court, he added.

Umrani demanded that all those who had contested the election by producing fake degrees should be disqualified. He said his opponent, Abdul Ghafoor Lehri, in the local bodies elections held last year had showed himself a Matriculate, but only after a year he had become a graduate!

Lehri, he alleged, obtained a fake degree from a madresah in Shikarpur.

He said the ISI, employing the entire government machinery, ensured that Pakistan People’s Party did not get a majority in the National Assembly.