ISLAMABAD: On Wednesday, former president Asif Ali Zardari’s sister Faryal
Talpur filed her reply in the Election Commission of Pakistan. Her response is to a petition seeking her disqualification as a member
of the Sindh
Assembly.
On September 20, court granted last chance to
Talpur to respond in the plea against her disqualification as MPA.
Faryal
Talpur submitted her response to the ECP through her lawyer Sheeraz Rajput.
The applicant is unaware
of the ground realities and the law. The Sindh
Assembly Speaker has already turned down the disqualification plea, the reply of
Talpur said. It added that the ECP is not the proper forum to hear such a plea.
“Election tribunal is the only forum to hear pleas against my disqualification,”
Talpur said.
After submission
of the response, the ECP adjourned the hearing
of the case until December 14.
Two Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Arsalan Taj and Rabia Azfar had moved a petition in the ECP seeking disqualification of Ms
Talpur as member
of the provincial assembly over allegedly concealing her assets.
They stated the PPP leader should be disqualified under Article 62
of the Constitution. Because she has failed to declare details of her assets before the ECP. It means she is also no longer ‘Sadiq and Ameen’.
Faryal
Talpur owned pro
perties in Larkana and Shahdadkot, the petitioner stated. He also added
Talpur had been nominated in a case pertaining to billions of r
upees corruption through fake bank accounts.
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