In the West, many MPs' and politicians are not necessarily university graduates and some are not even educated to O'levels standards. Some of them are or have been union leaders, miners and even plumbers but their brains are as good and often better than any graduate from a university and they do not fake their education or pretend to be university educated. They are honest in their revelations and not ashamed of their past but majority of Pakistani politicians, provincial ministers and cabinet ministers are dishonest to core and hide their deceitful past either in academic qualifications and personal deeds.
President Asif Ali Zardari is no 1 fake, dishonest and crook with a fake degree from LSE and does not remember even the subject he studied. So, it is absurd to expect that his supporters will not follow their leaders. The problem with the Pakistani electorate is that 80% of them are illiterate and they do not know to vote for living person or a dead person. They just vote for the name even if he or she is dead and buried. Millions of PPP supporters will always vote for the name Bhutto and millions of MQM zombie voters will vote for their fugitive leader living in the UK.
Jamshed Dasti knew it was illegal to fake a degree but he dared the law of the land and therefore deserves harshest sentence described by the Law of the land. It does not matter how many people voted for him because majority of those who voted for him would have totally illiterate who do not understand what is legal and illegal.