
Degrees of eligibility
Ghinwa Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto’s sister-in-law and leader of a breakaway PPP faction, got her bachelor’s degree from Punjab University this week. It makes her eligible to contest elections. (Daily Times, August 23.) Also, “an application was moved in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, seeking an early decision on a petition challenging ‘Sanads’ (seminary degrees) of 68 Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal members of parliament and provincial assemblies” (Dawn, August 23).