The accountability bench of the High Court in the Pakistani city of Karachi, has sentenced a former minister of Sindh province to two years in jail for corruption.

The former minister, Pir Mazhar Ul Haq, who was accused of the illegal allocation of land, was also fined one million Pakistani rupees.

Mr Haq said he would appeal.

The court had earlier declared the former Sindh chief minister, Syed Abdullah Shah, who has fled the country, an absconder.