HYDERABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Senator Dr Rahila Magsi — who has recently been elected to the upper house of parliament from Islamabad — has said that her nomination papers were rejected because Sindh’s rulers and former president Asif Ali Zardari did not want to see her in the Senate because she had launched a campaign in support of sugar cane growers.

She was speaking to reporters at the Tando Allahyar press club and party workers at the Jamshoro toll plaza where she had arrived from Karachi after being elected a member of the upper house.

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She was given a warm reception by her supporters who had come in large numbers from Tando Allahyar where she had served as district nazim from 2005 to 2009 after being elected from the Azad Magsi Ittehad platform.

Published in Dawn, March 19th, 2015

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