ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday set November 4 for hearing of a petition filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) seeking disqualification of Faryal Talpur as a member of the Sindh Assembly.
PTI’s Arsalan Taj and Rabia Azfar, who moved the petition, have received an intimation notice regarding the scheduled hearing. ECP has summoned the parties to the case to Islamabad for the purpose.
Arsalan Taj said in a statement that they will give good news to the people of the Sindh province.
Talpur along with other PPP leaders will be disqualified by ECP, he predicted, asking the people of the provincial legislature’s PS-10, Larkana’s constituency former president Asif Ali Zardari’s sister was elected from in last year’s general elections, to get ready for by-elections.
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 the PPP MPA also hid another land she owned in Shahdadpur and a plot in Nawabshah from the ECP. -NNI