CHIEF justice Sajjad Ali Shah shot to fame when the case challenging the dismissal of the first Nawaz Sharif government came up for hearing in 1993. Heads turned when the Sindhi judge of the supreme court bench differed completely with the rest of his colleagues. In his dissenting judgement, he gave grounds for why the first Punjabi prime minister's government should not be restored, also pointing out that a Sindhi prime minister like Benazir Bhutto had been sacked on similar grounds.