The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to hear on November 4 a petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) seeking disqualification of former president Asif Ali Zardari’s sister and PPP leader Faryal Talpur as member of Sindh Assembly.
PTI’s Arsalan Taj and Rabia Azfar, who moved the petition, have received an intimation notice regarding the scheduled hearing. The ECP has summoned all the parties to the case to Islamabad for the purpose. In a statement, Arsalan Taj said they will give a ‘good news’ to the people of Sindh province. Talpur along with other PPP leaders will be disqualified by the ECP, he predicted, asking the people of PS-10 constituency, from where she was elected in last year’s general elections, to get ready for a by-election. Accusing the PPP leader of hiding assets, Taj stated in the petition that she didn’t declare her 60-acre land in Shahdadkot. He added that the PPP MPA also didn’t declare another land she owned in Shahdadpur and a plot in Nawabshah. He pleaded the PPP leader should be disqualified under Article 62 of the constitution as she failed to declare details of her assets before the ECP, which means she is no longer ‘Sadiq and Ameen’. The PTI MPA added Talpur has been nominated in a case pertaining to billions of rupees corruption through fake bank accounts and pleaded that she be disqualified as member of the Sindh Assembly.
